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The development of computerized tomography has undoubtedly been the most significant advancement in the x-ray field since the discovery of the x-ray by Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen in 1895. Although conventional medical roentgenography was valuable in evaluating tissues with large differential densities, it could not clearly distinguish most soft-tissue structures and displayed overlapping, superimposed shadows of the area under investigation.
From the Proceedings of the 1976 IEEE Conference on Cybernetics and Society with permission.
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Huang, H.K., Ledley, R.S. (1979). Scanning Methods and Reconstruction Algorithms for Computerized Tomography. In: Preston, K., Taylor, K.J.W., Johnson, S.A., Ayers, W.R. (eds) Medical Imaging Techniques. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-3486-6_24
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