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images, and with a greater ability to vary the thickness of the cross-section being examined. This was achieved through the introduction of more complex, multidirectional devices that can move in more than one plane and perform more effective blurring. However, despite the increasing sophistication of focal plane tomography, it remained ineffective at producing images of soft tissues. With the increasing power and availability of computers in the 1960s, research began into practical computational techniques for creating tomographic images, leading to the development of computed tomography (CT).
298:, which acquired the rights to manufacture it. Pfizer subsequently introduced their version of the machine, called the "200FS" (with "FS" denoting Fast Scan). The 200FS generated images in a 256×256 matrix, offering much better image definition compared to the EMI-Scanner's 80×80. It took approximately 20 seconds to acquire a single image slice, making full-body scans feasible, although patients still had to hold their breath during this process – a key distinction from the EMI scanner, which could not perform body scans due to its five-minute acquisition time for a single slice. 291:, DDS, at Georgetown University. This revolutionary machine was equipped with 30 photomultiplier tubes as detectors and was capable of completing a scan in just nine translate/rotate cycles, significantly faster than the EMI-Scanner. To operate the servo-mechanisms and handle image acquisition and processing, the ACTA scanner used a DEC PDP11/34 minicomputer. 20: 28: 46:. In the early 1900s an Italian radiologist named Alessandro Vallebona invented tomography (named "stratigrafia") which used radiographic film to see a single slice of the body. It was not widely used until the 1930s, when Dr Bernard George Ziedses des Plantes developed a practical method for implementing the technique, known as 325:
CT may use continuous rotation of the gantry, and can acquire a data set in a few seconds with a spiral technique where the patient is moved in continuously while the machine basically acquires a single spiraling slice, so that all areas of interest are covered quickly. This data can be processed and
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The workflow for the ACTA and 200FS machines involved the operator acquiring a series of slices and then processing the images. These images were printed onto films and the raw data were archived onto magnetic tape. This archival step was necessary because the computer lacked the storage capacity for
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and the development of transverse axial scanning led CT to gradually supplant as the preferred modality of obtaining tomographic images. In terms of mathematics, the method is based upon the use of the Radon Transform. But as Cormack remembered later, he had to find the solution himself since it was
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appears sharper, while the images of the other points annihilate as noise. This is only marginally effective, as blurring occurs in only the "x" plane. This method of acquiring tomographic images using only mechanical techniques advanced through the mid-twentieth century, steadily producing sharper
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apparatus for investigating selected areas of interior objects obscured by dense material". The advent of sophisticated computers in the late 1960s and early 1970s made the development of the first practical computed tomography scanners possible. The first clinical CT scan was performed in a London
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computer played a pivotal role in the operation of the ACTA and 200FS scanners. It controlled the gantry, managed the scanning process, and processed raw data into the final images. Remarkably, this computer functioned with a mere 64 KB of memory and a 5 MB hard disk, which held both the operating
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tank with a pre-shaped rubber "head-cap" at the front, which enclosed the patient's head. The water-tank was used to reduce the dynamic range of the radiation reaching the detectors (between scanning outside the head compared with scanning through the bone of the skull). The images were relatively
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CT technology has vastly improved. Improvements in speed, slice count, and image quality have been the major focus primarily for cardiac imaging. Scanners now produce images much faster and with higher resolution enabling doctors to diagnose patients more accurately and perform medical procedures
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fruit by detecting dehydrated portions. In 1961, he built a prototype in which an X-ray source and a mechanically coupled detector rotated around the object to be imaged. By reconstructing the image, this instrument could get an X-ray picture of a nail surrounded by a circle of other nails, which
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Portable CT scanners can be brought to the patient's bedside and do a scan without getting the patient out of bed. Some portable scanners are limited by their bore size and therefore mainly used for head scans. They do not have image viewing capabilities directly on the scanner. The portable CT
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In 2021, the FDA approved Siemens' photon-counting scanner. The scanner counts individual x-ray photons that pass through a patient and discriminates their energy, increasing the detail supplied to the reader. The technique also reduces the amount of x-rays needed for a scan.
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The first production X-ray CT machine (in fact called the "EMI-Scanner") was limited to making tomographic sections of the brain, but acquired the image data in about 4 minutes (scanning two adjacent slices), and the computation time (using a
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with Hounsfield. The field of the mathematical methods of computerized tomography continues to be an area of active development. An overview on the history of CT as well as the mathematical methods and their developments has been written by
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The first computed tomography (CT) system capable of producing images of any part of the human body without the need for a cumbersome "water tank" was the Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial (ACTA) scanner, designed by Dr.
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conceived an idea for "scanning a head through a transmitted beam of X-rays, and being able to reconstruct the radiodensity patterns of a plane through the head" after watching an automated apparatus built to reject
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more than one study at a time. In busy hospitals, CT operators found themselves constantly engaged in this labor-intensive process. Maintaining the machine's functionality was also a significant undertaking.
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The original 1971 prototype took 160 parallel readings through 180 angles, each 1° apart, with each scan taking a little over 5 minutes. The images from these scans took 2.5 hours to be processed by
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In October 1963, Oldendorf received a U.S. patent for a "radiant energy apparatus for investigating selected areas of interior objects obscured by dense material," for which he shared the 1975
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In 2008 Siemens introduced a new generation of scanner that was able to take an image in less than 1 second, fast enough to produce clear images of beating hearts and coronary arteries.
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program and the acquired raw data. The hard disk itself comprised two 12" platters, one of which was internal and fixed, while the other was housed in a removable round cartridge.
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on a large computer. The scanner employed a pencil X-ray beam aimed at a single photomultiplier detector, and operated on the Translate/Rotate principle.
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displayed in any plane. This results in a big reduction in x-ray exposure. Siemens and Toshiba are the leaders in this technology.
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scanner does not replace the fixed CT suite. An example of this type of machine is the Siemens Healthineers SOMATOM On.site.
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made it impossible to X-ray from any single angle. In his landmark 1961 paper, he described the basic concept later used by
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Central Research Laboratories using X-rays. Hounsfield conceived his idea in 1967. The first EMI-Scanner was installed in
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developed a method to find an approximate solution to a large system of linear algebraic equations. This, along with
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The mathematical theory behind computed tomographic reconstruction dates back to 1917 with the invention of the
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minicomputer) was about 7 minutes per picture. This scanner required the use of a water-filled
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A historic EMI-Scanner Mark I, alongside the minicomputer used to process the CT image data
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used a method similar to the Radon transform to reconstruct a map of
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X-ray computed tomography
Radon transform
focal plane tomography
William H. Oldendorf
radiant energy
Godfrey Hounsfield
Radon transform
Johann Radon
Stefan Kaczmarz
Allan McLeod Cormack
algebraic reconstruction technique
Godfrey Hounsfield
Ronald N. Bracewell
solar radiation
UCLA
William Oldendorf
frostbitten
Allan McLeod Cormack
Lasker Award
Frank Natterer
Nirvana McFadden
Michael Saraswat
acute appendicitis
small bowel obstruction
Ogilvie syndrome
acute pancreatitis
intussusception
apple peel atresia

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