Audio slideshow: The first X-Rays

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German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen's image of a ghostly skeletal hand, wearing an enormous wedding ring, shocked and fascinated the public when it was published in newspapers in January 1896.

Here - for the BBC Radio 4 series 'Images That Changed The World' - Dr Mark Lythgoe looks at how the first images of living skeletons revolutionised our view of the body.

<a class="inlineText" href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00q2qk7">Images That Changed The World</a> can be heard on BBC Radio 4, daily at 1545 GMT between 25-29 January 2010.Each programme will then be available for seven days on the BBC iPlayer.

Music courtesy KPM Music.Slideshow production by Paul Kerley. Publication date 25 January 2010.

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