LECTURE NOTES IN MEDICAL ENGINEERING

The Discovery and Creation of X-rays

The First Nobel Prize in Physics

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Welcome back everybody to Medical Engineering. Today we want to talk a little bit about X-rays and in particular, we want to talk about all the features of X-rays how they have been discovered. Then we want to figure out how to actually generate them and in the later videos, we want to see how they interact with the matter and then finally also see how the actual image is formed in. In today’s video, we will start and we will introduce the X-ray radiations and how they have been discovered, and how to actually generate them. So looking forward to exploring a little bit of X-ray physics with you.