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AJR 2000; 175:962
© American Roentgen Ray Society

Centennial Photo Page

A Simple Method of Immobilization

Lane F. Donnelly1

1 Department of Radiology, Children's Hospital Medical Center, 3333 Burnet Ave., Cincinnati, OH 45229-3039.



 
From the AJR Archives: Celebrating the ARRS Centennial


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Comment. During the emergence of recent imaging techniques (such as MR imaging, CT, and sonography), image degradation caused by motion was a major limiting factor during early development. Technology was slow and image acquisition times were long. This was also the case with radiography. In 1917, Preston Hickey described the use of a balloon, wedged between the roentgen ray tube and the patient, as a method of patient immobilization. It was a modification of the suggestion by Eugene W. Caldwell (of the Caldwell view of the sinuses) of using a football. Hickey found footballs to be noncompliant and radiopaque. Hickey served as the editor in chief of the AJR from 1902 to 1916 and as the eighth president of the American Roentgen Ray Society from 1907 to 1908.



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  		Fig. 1. Photograph shows elastic balloon wedged between roentgen ray tube and patient.

 



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