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

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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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