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    Room dedicated to Prof J. Cornelis.(Neuro-radiologist UCL/KUL)

    Professor Cornelis 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 "Lipidiol ®" 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.