M0019829: Conventional x-ray and a tomograph of the same lung

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Conventional x-ray of lung

Previous title, replaced July 2022: Tomograph of lung, 1940

Reproductions of an x-ray and tomograph of a lung. The tomograph shows the detailed outline of the immense cavity in the right lobe and the contour of the cavity in the left upper lobe. Published in McDougall, John Bowes: Tomography, London : Lewis, 1940. Related images: M0019825-M0019831

March 1964

1 photograph sheet film negative; 10.2 x 12.7 cm

Wellcome Collection holds the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2022.

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