# Beatles and CT Scans **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 25, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979 "2017-03-25T02:26:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![WonderfulDave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c77e96/32.png) [@WonderfulDave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WonderfulDave)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/1 "2017-03-25T02:26:51Z")
Did the the sale of Beatles albums fund the development of the CT Scanner? I have a thousand Beatle questions, let’s start with this one. Thank you, drp ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/2 "2017-03-25T03:53:53Z")
Not in this guy’s opinion: [https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22446352/](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/22446352/) ---
**Author:** ![Isilder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/cc9497/32.png) [@Isilder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isilder)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 11:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/3 "2017-03-25T11:54:47Z")
Godfrey Hounsfield was employed by EMI laboratories and had There is no real theory that his employment was connected to the Beatles. Hounsfield had built computers for EMI. EMI had run a lab developing radar , eg during WW II, and Hounsfield developed computers, TV devices, and night vision. The E in EMI standards for Electronic, and they had Professor Hounsfield on payroll for the E section. Did it cost EMI anything to have Hounsfield develop the CT scanner ? They sold the rights and profited ??? They also sold services from their computing section, and sold the electronics and computing sections off as going concerns. ---
**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/4 "2017-03-25T12:39:19Z")
You might argue that EMI was awash with cash and could afford to indulge Hounsfield in his ideas. It wasn’t as if a medical scanner was core activities for EMI. Developing audio and TV equipment was more the main objective at the time. So, in a roundabout manner, the success of EMI as an owner of recording labels, and the prodigious money made on the back of the pop music revolution funded the CT work. But the idea that there was a direct link from the Beatles to work that was undertaken after the group had broken up in a bit tenuous. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 1:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/5 "2017-03-25T13:19:48Z")
Money is frangible. The money EMI put into the development came from their income. The Beatles were a massive contributor to their income. Since money is frangible, at least some of the income from the Beatles went into the development of MRI. If there were no Beatles, EMI would have had less money to invest. It’s not a direct link, but certainly the fact that EMI had the money from the Beatles gave them the money to invest. ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 1:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/6 "2017-03-25T13:34:13Z")
Do you mean “fungible?” ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/7 "2017-03-25T15:05:39Z")
My money is all too frangible. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/8 "2017-03-25T20:08:28Z")
Keith Richards noted bitterly that the Stones’ record company, Decca, took profits from their music and used it for R and D on delivery systems for bombs. ---
**Author:** ![SpeedwayRyan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@SpeedwayRyan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SpeedwayRyan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/9 "2017-03-26T17:08:36Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Keith Richards noted bitterly that the Stones’ record company, Decca, took profits from their music and used it for R and D on delivery systems for bombs. Just to bring things full circle, Decca turned down the Beatles after an audition, saying “guitar groups are on the way out.” So if we believe both claims, the Decca rejection led to Beatles record sales money funding lifesaving technology instead of bomb delivery technology. ---
**Author:** ![Francis\_Vaughan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/francis_vaughan/32/3093_2.png) [@Francis\_Vaughan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Francis_Vaughan)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2017, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/10 "2017-03-26T17:56:05Z")
> [@Kropotkin](#): > > Keith Richards noted bitterly that the Stones’ record company, Decca, took profits from their music and used it for R and D on delivery systems for bombs. Which is pretty naive. [Decca had a huge role in the development of radar](http://woottonbridgeiow.org.uk/decca-legacy/contents.php), from the early work in WW2 right through until the entire division was sold off. Decca did radar for everything, including air traffic control. Obviously they did military radra as well. They were also a big part of the Loran navigation system (which was often known as Decca/Loran.) Until the advent of GPS Loran was one of the prime navigation systems for aviation and maritime use. Somehow perverting all this to talk of bomb delivery systems is probably more evidence of Keith Richards’ problems than Deccas’. ---
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2017, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/beatles-and-ct-scans/782979/11 "2017-03-27T00:29:15Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > My money is all too frangible. ☹ As it said on the penny, “tempus frangit”. I’m sure if you chase this back enough, you can prove that Larry “Bud” Melman funded the Cold War.