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CT-scan Image Production Procedures
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In 1972, electrical engineer Sir Godfrey Hounsfield invented the first computed tomography (CT) scanner. Around the same time, physicist Allan McLeod Cormack developed a similar system, and Hounsfield and Cormack shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979. CT has since become an imaging modality widely used in medicine.
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