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For many centuries physicians wished for a method to look inside patient without the need for a surgical intervention. The level of recognition of human diseases would have greatly increased if there was a way to make a human body “transparent”. Nobody could have even imagined that this dream can come true. With the discovery of X-rays by Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen in 1895 (Roentgen 1895a, Roentgen 1895b) it became possible.
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Levakhina, Y. (2014). Where we are today: Tomosynthesis research and development. In: Three-Dimensional Digital Tomosynthesis. Aktuelle Forschung Medizintechnik – Latest Research in Medical Engineering. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-05697-1_2
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