Prof. Dr Björn Poppe
Institute of Physics

• Photos from the lecture

We are usually only familiar with our bodies from the outside. We know what colour our hair and skin are, and we recognise a mosquito bite by the swelling at the site. If we feel pain inside our body – for example, after a fall – a doctor can use X-ray equipment to look inside our body and try to find the cause. Anyone who has ever broken an arm or a leg is familiar with these images. But X-ray technology can do even more. By moving the X-ray machine around the patient, the human body can be sliced into thin sections on a computer. Then even individual organs become visible. To do this, the patient has to go into a ‘tube’. In this lecture, we’ll explore X-rays with you through lots of experiments and a live link to an X-ray machine at Pius Hospital, and try to ‘make the invisible visible’.

Presenter: Anke Genius, NDR

Wednesday, 27 August 2008
4.30 pm to 5.30 pm
Audimax, lecture centre

More information:
Here you can try out lots of great things on the topic of X-rays
and learn a lot:
www.werkstatt-roentgen.de/

German X-ray Museum:
www.roentgen-museum.de/