Historical timeline

How medical imaging got here.

11 entries

First 64-slice CT (2004)

2004 — multiple vendors launch 64-slice CT scanners simultaneously, an unusually competitive product cycle: GE LightSpeed VCT, Siemens…

First Clinical CT (1972)

October 1, 1971 — first clinical CT scan, performed at Atkinson Morley Hospital, London, on a 41-year-old woman with a suspected brain…

First Clinical MR-Linac (2018)

2018 — Elekta Unity ships, the first commercial 1.5T MRI-guided linear accelerator. Combines a diagnostic-grade 1.5T MR magnet with a 7 MV…

First Commercial PET/CT (2001)

1998 — David Townsend (University of Pittsburgh) and colleagues demonstrate the first PET / CT prototype, integrating a CT scanner with a…

First Digital PET (2016)

2014–2016 — Philips Vereos ships, the first commercial PET / CT with silicon photomultipliers (SiPM) replacing photomultiplier tubes…

First FDA-Approved 3D Tomosynthesis (2011)

February 2011 — FDA Premarket Approval (PMA) of the Hologic Selenia Dimensions for digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT). The first…

First Human MRI (1977)

July 3, 1977 — Raymond Damadian, Larry Minkoff, and Michael Goldsmith produce the first MRI scan of a living human, with Minkoff serving…

OEC 9800 Debut (1999)

1999 — GE OEC launches the 9800 mobile C-arm, the platform that becomes the global workhorse for surgical, orthopedic, pain-management,…

Philips Azurion / ClarityIQ (2017)

2017 — Philips ships Azurion, succeeding the Allura Xper platform that had defined the Philips interventional X-ray installed base for…

Röntgen Discovers X-rays (1895)

November 8, 1895 — Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen, working at the University of Würzburg with a Crookes-tube cathode-ray apparatus in a darkened…

Varian TrueBeam Launch (2010)

2010 — Varian TrueBeam launches, succeeding the Clinac iX lineage as Varian's flagship linear accelerator. The platform refresh combines a…