Protection and Safety of the Application of Radiation Sources in Medicine
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Abstract
Since the discovery of the X–ray and radioactivity the largest user of radiation sources is medicine. That is the reason why the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century brought significant changes in healing, compared to the previous ones. After Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen ― the latter Nobel Prize winning physicist ― discovered X–rays they were named after him, and mankind’s desire to be able to “see into” the interior of the human body became a reality.