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Interesting fact: CT was invented in 1972 by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories, England and by South Africa-born physicist Allan Cormack of Tufts University, Massachusetts. EMI was also a record label at the time that happened to have the contract of the Beatles and used the money from the massively successful Beatles albums to fund the development of CT. In a way we have the Beatles to thank for one of the greatest advances in modern medicine [1].
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Scheske, J., Ghoshhajra, B. (2016). Cardiac Computed Tomography. In: Kireyev, D., Hung, J. (eds) Cardiac Imaging in Clinical Practice. In Clinical Practice. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21458-0_18
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