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In 1971, engineer Godfrey Hounsfield’s new scanner revealed a brain cyst in the first clinical CT scan; 8 years later, he shared the Nobel Prize for developing computer-assisted tomography

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In 1971, engineer Godfrey Hounsfield’s new scanner revealed a brain cyst in the first clinical CT scan; 8 years later, he shared the Nobel Prize for developing computer-assisted tomography

Godfrey Hounsfield stands beside the EMI-Scanner in 1972 and modern CT scans provide much higher resolution images of the ‘slices’ of the brain than Hounsfield’s original scan did in 1971. What if the contents of a sealed box could be revealed without ever opening it? For British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, the question began with an … Read more