Radiographer
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Radiographers are healthcare professionals who perform medical imaging and radiation therapy. Medical imaging is used for the diagnosis of pathology, while radiation therapy is used for treatment.
A radiographer with a radiographic examination table and X-Ray tube
Taking an X-ray image with early Crookes tube apparatus, late 1800s
The first radiograph
A modern diagnostic radiology acquisition console. The evolution of allied health roles has expanded a radiographer's clinical domain to include advanced computed tomography (CT) slice profiling and multiplanar volume reconstruction.
Crookes tube
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A Crookes tube is an early experimental discharge tube with partial vacuum invented by English physicist William Crookes and others around 1869–1875, in which cathode rays, streams of electrons, were
Experimental Crookes tube belonging to Wilhelm Röntgen, c. 1890, at Gedächtnisstätte Würzburg (Rontgen Memorial), Würzburg, Germany
A Crookes tube: light and dark. Electrons (cathode rays) travel in straight lines from the cathode (left), as shown by the shadow cast by the metal Maltese cross on the fluorescence of the righthand glass wall of the tube. The anode is the electrode at the bottom
William Crookes and his glowing tubes gained renown, as shown by this 1902 caricature in Vanity Fair. The caption read "ubi Crookes ibi lux", which in Latin means roughly, "Where there is Crookes, there is light"
Crookes X-ray tube from around 1910