Marie Curie Invented Mobile X | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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These days the phrase “mobile x-ray unit” is likely to spark heated debate about privacy, public health, and freedom of information, especially in New York City[1], where the police force has been less than forthcoming about its use of military grade Z Backscatter surveillance vans[2].

A hundred years ago, Mobile X-Ray Units[3] were a brand new innovation, and a godsend for soldiers wounded on the front in WW1. Prior to the advent of this technology, field surgeons racing to save lives operated blindly, often causing even more injury as they groped for bullets and shrapnel whose precise locations remained a mystery.

Marie Curie[4] was just setting up shop at Paris’ Radium Institute[5], a world center for the study of radioactivity, when war broke out. Many of her researchers left to fight, while Curie personally delivered France’s sole sample of radium ...