Medshotsover 1 year ago

The first CT SCAN EVER!

The first clinical CT scan on a patient took place on 1st October 1971 at Atkinson Morley's Hospital, in London, England. The patient, a lady with a suspected frontal lobe tumour, was scanned with a prototype scanner, developed by Godfrey Hounsfield and his team at EMI Central Research Laboratories in Hayes, west London. The scanner produced an image with an 80 x 80 matrix, taking about 5 minutes for each scan, with a similar time required to process the image data. Current CT scanners can produce images with an 1024 x 1024 matrix, acquiring data for a slice in less than 0.3 seconds, and are an integral part of a modern hospital's imaging resources. Follow us @medshots for more