MEDRADSC 3K03 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1-2: Cardiac Imaging, Data Acquisition, Cartesian Coordinate System

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Role of ct: overcomes superimposition by scanning thin sections of the body with a narrow x-ray beam that rotates around the body, producing images of each cross section. Less time on the table for the patient- faster put-through, if trauma, they can diagnose pts sooner, less side effects, less reoccurrence (cid:862)drr(cid:863): digitally reconstructed radiographs. 1917 math equation discovered for reconstructing cross-sectional images from. 1920s first tomography imaging (lacked sufficient detail to be diagnostic) Hit a (cid:396)oad(cid:271)lo(cid:272)k, (cid:449)as(cid:374)"t a(cid:271)le to p(cid:396)o(cid:272)ess a(cid:374)(cid:455) of the i(cid:374)fo. The beatles signed with electric & music industries (emi), generated money that they reinvested in their company, including the work of one of their engineers (hounsfield), emi produced the first commercially available ct scanner. 1970s first head scan from head whole body scanning first cat scanner developed. 1989: more in the shape of a spring and not hitting the pt right on (like axial), Godfrey hounsfield // allan cormack (nobel prize in physiology and.

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