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Also Known As computerized axial tomography • computerized tomography • computerized tomographic scanning • CAT • CAT scanning • CT • CAT scan • computerized tomographic imaging

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computerized axial tomography
computed tomography (CT) scan
Twelve CAT scan images display cross-sectional and frontal views of a human head, showing detailed internal structures in black and white.
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Allan MacLeod Cormack
Allan MacLeod Cormack
American physicist
Godfrey N. Hounsfield, 1979.
Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
British engineer

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