TOPIC: COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHYπ IMPORTANT POINTS TO REMEMBERπΉTomography: The word tomography is derived from the Greek word βtomosβ meaning βa technique of X-ray photography by which a single plane is photographed with the outline of structures in other plane eliminatedβ.πΉHistory: Allen McLeod Cormack proposed the theoretical idea of CT in 1950s and the practical device was developed in the late 1960s by Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield.
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