This development is made by British electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield in 1967 This has one special implication for the specialty of Neuroradiology as the CAT or "computerized axial tomography" scanner is born, in medical terminology the term tomography refers to the ability to view a particular part of the body eliminating views of the x-ray shadows that bones and/or organs throw in front of and behind that view. ... Since this time as we have learned the many benefits and practical uses of the x-ray we have been able to develop and modernize this once evolutionary tool of medicine, the ...

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