Spine Talk

For more info visit www.texasback.com/blog Low Radiation and 3-D Images: Two Reasons Your Next X-Ray Should be Taken with the IOS Machine (Stock photo of an x-ray of the spine) When Professor Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1901/rontgen-bio.html) discovered the x-ray while working with a cathode –ray tube in his laboratory in 1895, medical journals of the day immediately understood the significance of this discovery. This ray could pass through most substances, casting shadows of solid objects. What most excited the physicians and dentists about Roentgen’s discovery was that the ray could pass through the tissue of humans, but not bones and metal objects. According to an article (https://www.nde-ed.org/EducationResources/CommunityCollege/Radiography/Introduction/history.htm) on the history of radiography, “Public fancy was caught by this invisible ray with the ability to pass through solid matter, and, in conjunction with a photographic plate, provide a pi