Dr Elliot K Fishman | CTisus.com
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Professor of Radiology and Radiological Science, Johns Hopkins Medicine. CTisus is an informational and educational radiology resource dedicated to CT scanning. Opinions our own.
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Photo 1: the first CT scanner, circa 1971 (image credit Science Museum Group)
Photos 2-3: the same scanner on display at London's Science Museum
On this day in 1971, the first clinical CT scan was done on a prototype scanner in London. Sir Godfrey Hounsfield and Dr. Allan M. Cormack co-invented the scanner to collect cross-sectional images of a patient. They would both later win the Nobel Prize for their work.

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