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Baker, Hillier L., Houser, O. Wayne, Campbell, J. Keith, Reese, David F., Holman, Colin B. |
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JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association; September 1975, Vol. 233 Issue: 12 p1304-1308, 5p |
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COMPUTERIZED tomography is a recent exciting radiologic innovation for diagnosing intracranial lesions. It was developed by Godfrey N. Hounsfield, a senior research scientist at Central Research Laboratories, EMI, Hayes, Middlesex, England.1-6 A narrow moving beam of x-rays is passed through the head and attenuation coefficients of small units of brain are plotted by computer as the beam traverses the cross section of the tissue that is scanned. The system, in essence, produces a series of displays of axial tomograms or slices. It is capable of detecting minute alterations in absorption values of the intracranial contents. The clinical usefulness of the instrument has been reported recently by several authors.7-16The ScannerThe basic EMI scanner system includes a scanning unit (containing the x-ray tube and accurately aligned radiation detectors), an x-ray generator and controls, a computer with magnetic disk unit and printer, and cathode-ray tube viewing unit.The |
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