Digital models
Previously, X-rays were displayed on a special developing film. Modern devices are equipped with a receiver in the form of a matrix, which allows you to obtain an image in a digital version.
In the modern market of medical equipment, you can buy an X-ray device of any type, but digital is more convenient and visually informative for research. Modern X-ray equipment with a digital matrix has advantages:
- due to the high sensitivity level of the matrix, the radiation passing through the human body is reduced by 10 times;
- reduction of the total study time;
- the high resolution of the resulting image allows the doctor to examine the patient's organs in more detail;
- the results of the study are stored in the database of the device, do not take up much space and can be restored if necessary;
- there is no need to use, store and exhibit film, so medical research is more budgetary and faster.
Stationary and mobile
X-ray machines differ in the method of installation, size, equipment and many other characteristics. The main functional difference is the installation method. The devices are as follows:
- Stationary - bulkier and heavier equipment that requires a separate room for installation. Research with such installations allows you to fix a person in the right state and get high-quality pictures of high resolution;
- Mobile - these models of X-ray machines are compact and convenient when examining patients at home or in the ward, if the patient cannot move independently.
The package of all devices can vary depending on the manufacturer and the needs of the medical institution.
Chronicle
2026: Russia created and implemented the first commercial technology for the production of X-ray detectors
The first commercial technology in Russia for the production of material for X-ray detectors was created and introduced at Tomsk State University (TSU). This was reported by the press service of TSU on February 3, 2026. Read more here.
2025: An electronic nanolithograph for the production of X-ray optics has been developed and began to be used in Russia
Specialists of the P.N. Lebedev Physical Institute have developed a modernized installation of electronic nanolithography for the manufacture of domestic components of X-ray and diffraction optics. The new system was created on the basis of the Soviet electronic nanolithograph and is already used for the production of high-tech elements. This was announced on July 4, 2025 by the head of the Trinity Separate Division of the FIAN, Vice-President of the International Commission on Optics, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Andrei Naumov.
According to TASS, the project is being implemented within the framework of the joint public-private laboratory of the Trinity division of the FIAN. The results of scientific work are published in the Russian journal "Photonics."
As the basis for the new installation, scientists used the ZBA electronic nanolithograph, which was developed between 1980 and 1990 by a consortium of countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance. In the Soviet Union and CMEA countries, several hundred such installations functioned, which were used to manufacture a significant part of the late Soviet and post-Soviet electronics.
Naumov noted that after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the production of these machines was discontinued for political reasons. Russian specialists reengineered individual units of the plant and processed them taking into account modern technological solutions.
The upgraded system makes it possible to produce various components of high-tech electronics. Russian scientists are already obtaining, using the installation, spectrometer elements and components for the manufacture of diffractive optical elements and phase gratings, which are used in machine vision and microscopy systems.
The plant also produces high quality diffraction gratings for spectrometers. The system allows printing on large plates up to 150 by 150 mm in size, which expands the scope of the technology.[1]
2023: An analogue of Ilizarov's apparatus, transparent for X-ray, was developed in the Far East
On July 10, 2023, Russian researchers from the Far Eastern Federal University (FEFU) announced the development of an X-ray transparent mini-fixer by analogy with the Ilizarov apparatus. It is assumed that the solution will allow better control and analysis of the treatment process for patients with injuries and diseases of the bones and joints. Read more here.
2019: X-ray alternative
On May 26, 2019, it became known that Russia is developing a device that allows using ordinary water to change the intensity of terahertz radiation. This type of radiation is an alternative to a hazardous X-ray. It is assumed that this device will be able to be used, among other things, for dental images and the search for subcutaneous neoplasms. Read more here.
2018: World's first colour 3D X-ray launched
In July 2018, the New Zealand company MARS Bioimaging introduced and announced the use of the world's first color three-dimensional X-ray scanner. It is based on Medipix3 technology developed by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world's largest high-energy physics laboratory. Father and son, scientists Phil Butler and Anthony Butler from the Universities of Canterbury and Otago spent ten years developing this medical scanner. Read more here.
1957: Horse-shaped apparatus for children
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1896: First X-ray photograph
In January 1896, William Konrad Röntgen took a picture of his friend Albert von Köllicker's hand using x-radiation. In five years, the scientist will receive the Nobel Prize for discovery.
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