An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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Computerized transverse axial scanning (tomography).

Brit J. Radiol. 46, 1016-22, 1973.

Hounsfield invented computer-assisted tomography (CAT), or computed tomography (CT).

In 1979 Hounsfield shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Allen M. Cormack "for the development of computer assisted tomography." Hounsfield was the first engineer to receive a Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.



Subjects: COMPUTING/MATHEMATICS in Medicine & Biology, IMAGING › Computed Tomography (CT, CAT), NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
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