[1] It is published by the British Institute of Radiology and the editors-in-chief are Simon Jackson (University Hospitals Plymouth NHS Trust) and Andrew Nisbet (University College London).

[2] The journal's forerunner, the Archives of Clinical Skiagraphy was established by Sydney Domville Rowland in May 1896.

[3][4] In July 1897 it was renamed the Archives of the Roentgen Ray and reported that it would keep a "record [of] the proceedings of the recently formed Roentgen Society, and will consist of original communications, notes, and correspondence ... (and) offers itself, not merely as a journal of the new photography, but to some extent as the exponent of an important discovery".

[1] It was published quarterly and was the only journal which reported the transactions of the roentgen Society.

[1] The journal published important works on the development of CT scan and MRI imaging techniques.