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The impact of Nikola Tesla on X-rays discovery

Learning Objectives: To present the role of Nikola Tesla’ s (1856-1943) research in x-rays discovery and invention of modern imaging technologies. Background: Discoveries of Nikola Tesla represent basics of traditional, but also modern imaging techniques. Tesla's work is present in every radiological department, including fluorescent lights in viewboxes, alternating current (AC) supplying the equipment, Tesla-Knott generator used for x-ray equipment, etc. One of Tesla's never completed work were experiments with what would later be called x-rays. Procedure Details: Tesla's articles published on the topic of x-rays and their biological hazards in The New York Electrical Review in years 1896 and 1897, Tesla's biography, as well as medical papers mentioning Nikola Tesla were analyzed. Conclusion: Since April 1887 Tesla began investigations using Crookes tubes, and his own vacuum tube which was a special single-electrode x-ray tube without target electrode. It seems that by 1892 he became aware of what Roentgen identified as x-rays effects three years later. He didn't publicly declare his findings nor make them widely known, and much of his research was lost in a fire in his laboratory in New York in 1895. He was also among the first to comment the biological hazards of working with x-rays with the conclusion that distance was a useful safety factor.

X-rays; history; Nikola Tesla

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