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    • Room " Professor Dr CORNELIS "

    ©Oswald Pauwels M&L     


    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.

    Note that in those days radiographic pictures were developed manually.