How has military use of medical imaging in austereenvironments changed? A comparison betweendeployments of the Victorian era and today

摘要

Over 100 years ago, in the late 19th century, the British military first deployed radiological equipment to theatres of war, notablyto Afghanistan during the Tirah campaign and to Sudan during the River War. The efforts of early radiological pioneers, and theclear diagnostic utility their equipment offered, quickly saw radiology formally incorporated into military medicine as its owndiscipline. The two World Wars saw the specialisation advance rapidly in scope and capability. To draw comparison with earlierconflicts, the early 21st century saw modern medical imaging equipment utilised in the same geographical regions: first as partof Op HERRICK in Afghanistan from 2003-14; and currently as part of Op TRENTON in South Sudan.