Medical Engineering I
148 8 Computed Tomography Figure 8.1: Volume rendering of a CT head scan. Image courtesy of Siemens Healthineers AG. For educational purposes only. Figure 8.2: The first clinical CT scan, acquired October 1971 at Atkinson Morley’s Hospital in London. (a) (b) (c) Figure 8.3: 2-D X-ray projection image of a luggage bag (a) and a corre-
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