medical-imaging

How Lauterbur's 1973 Nature paper and Mansfield's math turned nuclear magnetic resonance into the scanner that sees inside living tissue without radiation.

How Wilhelm Röntgen's accidental November 1895 discovery of X-rays — using a Crookes tube and a glowing screen — earned the first Nobel Prize in Physics and created modern medical imaging.

How neural networks detect cancer earlier than pathologists.

MRI sees inside your body without radiation by making hydrogen atoms in your tissues sing at a specific radio frequency.