Editorial - Radiology, a problem of expression

Abstract

In 1895, when the interior of the human body was visualized for the first time without the need to cut the skin and dissect tissues, Roentgen took a big step towards the development of a new branch of science.
The physicist, through “a new kind of rays” (name of his work), managed to see for the first time the bones of his wife’s left intact hand. At that time he must have been aware of the marvel of that discovery and conscious of part of the implications that such knowledge would have. Awareness of the new possibilities then open! However, he was certainly far from imagining everything that, after 125 years, we have been able to know about the inside of the human body through the then new species of rays among other things.