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On November 8, 1895, Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (1845–1923) discovered X-rays in his laboratory at the University of Würzburg, Germany. In 1901, he was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Physics “in recognition of the extraordinary services he has rendered by the discovery of the remarkable rays subsequently named after him.” Röntgen declined to patent his discovery, so that it could be more widely used. Consequently, imaging with X-rays was rapidly introduced into medical diagnostics.

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  1. Department of Cardiology, University of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Stephan S. Achenbach

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  1. Los Angeles Biomedical Research Institute, UCLA, Torrance, California, USA

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  2. Department of Cardiology, Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany

    Stephan S. Achenbach

  3. Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City, New York, USA

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This chapter is dedicated to the memory of David G. King (1947–2004), an assistant to Sir Godfrey Hounsfield in his early career and a tireless supporter of research in cardiac CT, often referred to as the “father of coronary calcium scanning.”

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Achenbach, S.S. (2018). Historical Perspective. In: Budoff, M., Achenbach, S., Hecht, H., Narula, J. (eds) Atlas of Cardiovascular Computed Tomography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-7357-1_1

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