Conventional diagnostic imaging of the temporal bone. A historical review

Summary The Viennese Medical School played an important role in the development of radiological examinations and signs of the temporal bone with conventional X-rays. Famous pioneers include E. G. Mayer (1893–1969) and L. Psenner (1910–1986). Nowadays conventional X-rays and tomography have lost their important role in diagnostic radiology of the temporal bone, but the basic principles established in those early years of radiology are still used now. This statement is correct not only for conventional X-rays, but particularly for “poly”-tomography in comparison with CT.