Basic principles of computed tomography
1930 - conventional tomography (A. Vallebona) 1963 - theoretical basis of CT (A. McLeod Cormack) 1971 - first commercial CT (Sir Godfrey Hounsfield) 1974 - first 3rd generation CT 1979 - Nobel price (Cormack & Hounsfield) 1989 - single-row CT 1994 - double-row spiral CT 2001 - 16-row spiral CT 2007 - 320-row spiral CT
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