COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (CT SCANS)

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BOOK – The 1001 Inventions that changed the world
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HISTORY:
 Conrad Rontgen (1845-1923) was the first person to take x-ray
photograph of a person. He won a Nobel prize in 1901. Those
x- rays were 2 dimensional. But those x-rays failed to image the
body’s soft tissue while kept perpendicularly.

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TITLE: - History of CT
CHANNEL: - Mayo Clinic
PUBLISED: - 16th April 2020

EXPLANATION: -
Before CT there was an exams called pneumo and Sefa log Rafi in
which the patient was strapped into a chain and air was injected into the
spinal column. The patient was turned upside down and side to side so
that the air would bubble up into the ventricles of the brain. X-rays were
taken at different position to try to detects a loss of symmetry in the
ventricles.

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IN THE BEGINNING OF CT SCANS: -
The evolution of the CT scans was between (1919 -2004).
 1968 - Godfrey Hounsfired devised the CAT Scan.
 1971 - A prototype scanner was installed at Atkinson Morley’s
Hospital.
 1975 - The large scanners that could image the entire body
were being marked.
 1960 – Allen Cormark had independently began work with the
mathematical technique necessary to reconstruct the image.

DEVELOPMENT OF CT SCANS: -
 1975 - Godfrey Housefired and James Ambrone found EMI1010
body CT scanner.
 1979 - It has very interesting geometry. This was also called a new
taking geometry.
 1983 – Along with OMNI QUAD – I and PICKER 600 &1200, so
many CT scans were discovered. The CT scans with different
geometry had developed an easy way to view the whole body.