Fluoro Trivia...

[Aether2000]

Who manufactured the first fluoroscope and when?
Who manufactured the first C-arm and when?
What was meant by the term "conventional fluoroscopy" in the 1950s?
What was the Adrian fluoroscope?

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[lobelsteve]

Conventional fluoroscopy: live, continuous X-ray, like those they used to have in shoe stores when PAZ was growing up.

 

[lobelsteve]

http://www.orau.org/ptp/collection/shoefittingfluor/shoe.htm

Very cool link.

 

[Aether2000]

Thomas Edison manufactured the first commercial fluoroscope in 1896. The first mobile C-arm was manufactured in 1955 by Philips, and was a model BV 20. It had a single viewing screen on the image intensifier that permitted only one person to view at a time, and the information was relayed verbally to the surgeon. The next advance came in 1958 when a "television chain" was added to the BV20, making it viewable by everyone in the OR.

 

[Aether2000]

Thomas Edison manufactured the first commercial fluoroscope in 1896. The first mobile C-arm was manufactured in 1955 by Philips, and was a model BV 20. It had a single viewing screen on the image intensifier that permitted only one person to view at a time, and the information was relayed verbally to the surgeon. The next advance came in 1958 when a "television chain" was added to the BV20, making it viewable by everyone in the OR.

As usual, lobelsteve is correct about the shoe scopes. There is one report of them being used in a West Virginia shoe store until the 1980s, as the store owner was not aware of state law prohibiting their use.

 

[Mister Mxyzptlk]

Thomas Edison manufactured the first commercial fluoroscope in 1896. The first mobile C-arm was manufactured in 1955 by Philips, and was a model BV 20. It had a single viewing screen on the image intensifier that permitted only one person to view at a time, and the information was relayed verbally to the surgeon. The next advance came in 1958 when a "television chain" was added to the BV20, making it viewable by everyone in the OR.

Wow I was way off. I was going to say "Colonel Mustard in the parlor with a bread knife".

 

[Aether2000]

I don't know ...perhaps Colonel Mustard and Edison were related...