...that the x-ray was discovered purely by accident? When German physicist Wilhelm Konrad von Roentgen was experimenting with cathode rays in 1895, he put an activated Crookes tube in a book and went out to lunch. When he returned, he discovered that a key that had also been placed in the book showed up as an image on the developed film!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6192264 | Method and system for MRI venography including arterial and venous discrimination A system and method for arterial and venous discrimination in MR venography is disclosed. By setting a noise level in the phase image (that is proportional to the velocity encoding value) at a threshold level between that of the arterial signals and the v... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6166545 | MRI reconstruction using partial echo and partial NEX data acquisitions A system and method is disclosed to combine both a fractional echo (kx) and a fractional NEX (ky) to reduce acquisition times and echo times in MR imaging. The method uses both zero-filling and homodyne reconstruction to construct co... | 12/26/2000 |