Prof Dr Björn Poppe
Institute of Physics

• Photos from the lecture

We all normally only know our bodies from the outside. We know the colour of our hair and skin, and we can recognise a mosquito bite by the way the area swells up. If it hurts inside our body - for example after a fall - the doctor can look inside our body with the help of X-ray equipment and try to find the cause. Anyone who has ever broken an arm or leg will be 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 cut into thin slices in the computer. Even individual organs can then be visualised. The patient has to go into a "tube" for this. In this lecture, we will explore X-rays with you with many experiments and a live connection to an X-ray machine at Pius Hospital and try to "make the invisible visible".

Moderator: Anke Genius, NDR

Wednesday, 27 August 2008
16.30 to 17.30
Audimax, Hörsaalzentrum

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

German Röntgen Museum:
www.roentgen-museum.de/