title: Montreal Museum exhibit provides clear picture of advances in medical imaging.
abstract: An exhibit at the McCord Museum of Canadian History, which runs until November, marks the centennial of the discovery of the x-ray. Among the items on display are a portable field x-ray machine used during World War I and one of the machines commonly found in shoe stores between 1930 and 1950 to x-ray customers' feet. The exhibit also features one of the first scanners used in North America. Dr. Denis Melançon, a radiologist at the Montreal Neurological Institute, was the driving force behind the McCord exhibit. "I wanted to show [not only] the historical and scientific aspects of the discovery, but also its medical and social applications," he says.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hamilton
mesh_terms: D005085:Exhibitions as Topic; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009144:Museums; D011792:Quebec; D011871:Radiology / Q000266:history* / Q000295:instrumentation