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However, little is known about this prominent personality of the German and world radiology, who described these structure or diseases. Alban K\u00f6hler (1874\u20131947) was one of the first German speaking pioneers in the emerging discipline \u2013 radiology, particularly radiology of bones and joints. He introduced new radiological techniques, such as \u201cTeler\u00f6ntgenographie\u201d, and published a number of outstanding studies focused primarily on the musculoskeletal system, as well as on pulmonary tuberculosis and cardiac radiology. For a long time, K\u00f6hler had been actively involved in the study of radiation sickness and proposed measures that are valid to this day. The most famous K\u00f6hler\u00b4s publication \u201cLexikon der Grenzen des Normalen und der Anf\u00e4nge des Pathologischen im R\u00f6ntgenbilde\u201d (The borderlands of the normal and early pathological in the skiagrams) was published for the first time in 1910. 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