A brief history of radiology
Radiology Cafe
FEBRUARY 5, 2019
Tomography originates from the Greek words ‘tomos’, meaning ‘slice’ or ‘section’, and ‘graphia’, meaning ‘description of’. In the 1960s computers were increasingly available and more powerful and in 1971, the first computed tomography (CT) scan was performed on a patient. Computer diagnosis of primary bone tumor.
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