Origin Story of The first CT scan (Republished from The Conversation
50 years ago, on 1st October 1971, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles’ record company Godfrey Hounsfield stands beside the EMI-Scanner in 1972. PA Images via Getty Images Edmund S. Higgins, Medical University of South Carolina The possibility of precious objects hidden in secret chambers can really ignite the imagination. In the mid-1960s, British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield pondered whether one could detect hidden areas in Egyptian pyramids by capturing cosmic rays that passed through unseen voids. He held onto this idea over the years, which can be […]