1961 OLDENDORF, William Henry (1925 – 1992)

Isolated flying spot detection of radiodensity discontinuities displaying the internal structural pattern of a complex object.

Oldendorf described his experimental system for reconstructing the appearance of soft tissues by measuring radiodensity discontinuities (differences in tissue attenuation) but it was not fully recognized that very hig…

GMN 2700.3 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4337

1963 CORMACK, Allan McLeod (1924 – 1998)

Representation of a Function by its Line Integrals, with Some Radiological Applications.

Cormack showed that changes in tissue density could be computed from x-ray data. Because of limitations in computing power no machine was constructed during the 1960s. Cormack's papers generated little interest until …

GMN 8149 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/10325

1973 HOUNSFIELD, Sir Godfrey Newbold (1919 – 2004)

Computerized transverse axial scanning (tomography).

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 …

GMN 2700.4 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/4340

1974 LEDLEY, Robert Steven (1926 – 2012); ET AL

Computerized transaxial x-ray tomography of the human body.

Ledley and team developed the developed the ACTA 0100 CT Scanner (Automatic Computerized Traverse Axial)— the first whole-body computed tomography scanner. With G. Di Chiro, A. J. Luessenhop, and H.L. Twigg. For furth…

GMN 6909 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9073

1990 WEBB, Steve

From the watching of shadows. The origins of radiological tomography.

GMN 7180 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9347

1991 ELLIS, Harold (1926 – ); LOGAN, Bari M.; DIXON, Adrian Kendall (1948 – )

Human cross-sectional anatomy: Atlas of body sections and CT images.

GMN 7718 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9890

1994 ROSENBUSCH, Gerd; OUDKERK, Matthijs; AMMANN, Ernst

Radiologie in der medizinischen Diagnostik. Evolution der Röntgenstrahlenanwendung 1895-1995.

Includes a section on the development of tomography and computed tomography (CT). Translated into English by Peter F. Winter as Radiology in medical diagnostics: Evolution of X-ray applications 1895-1995 (Oxford: Blac…

GMN 7583 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9755