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Conventional Tomography Universal tomograph (origine Massiot France). This tomograph had a posterior version when the production Massiot became Philips Medical System. In a iron sheet construction this table was lighter than the first one (1947) in Holster, with a mass of 2500 kg! Professor Cornelis had the same equipment. He headed the neuro-radiology department in the academic hospital of the university of Louvain in the nineteen sixties. In addition to images of the skull taken from different angles, a large number of tomographs were produced with the "Polytome", an instrument developed by Philips. With the injection of contrasting agents such as "Lipiodol ® " images could be produced of the spinal marrow (myelographs), the brain (encephalographs) and arteries (arteriographs). A built in cassette device developed by the firm De Man allowed an easy switch of the radiographic parameters to optimise the imaging of different tissues. Note that in those days radiographic pictures were developed manually.