The CT Scanner turned 50 today

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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I raise my glass to Sir Godfrey and Atkinson Harley Hospital for this invention that simply revolutionized diagnostic imaging.

2

Received the Nobel Prize for this.

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There are a lot of other people who made important contributions before then:

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Cool history: Friday was the 50th anniversary of the first successful medical CT scan: “On 1 October 1971, CT scanning was introduced into medical practice with a successful scan on a cerebral cyst patient at Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, London, United Kingdom.”

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I feel old. I remember that.

But happy birthday CT scanner. What a great improvement in medical imaging.