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Godfrey Hounsfield Invents Computed Tomography (CT)

1971
Hounsfield's sketch of the prototype CT scanner
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Hounsfield's sketch of the prototype CT scanner

In 1971 English electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield at EMI's Central Research Laboratories in Hayes, Middlesex, invented computed tomography (CT), the first application of computers to medical imaging.

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Imaging / Photography / Computer Vision
Computing in Medicine & Biology / Bioinformatics
Medicine