Where we are today: Tomosynthesis research and development

Abstract

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.