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The unique advantages of computer tomography so successfully exploited in the cranial cavity are now, with the advent of the Whole Body Scanner, available for the investigation of the spine and neural axis. Cross-sectional anatomical studies together with detection of tissue attenuation differences will, it is anticipated, enable not only the morphology of the bony spine, the intervertebral articulation system, the spinal canal, the neural axis and associated structures to be investigated but also the physiology of the CSF circulation in the spinal subarachnoid space.
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Isherwood, I., Fawcitt, R.A., Nettle, J.R.L., Spencer, J.W., Pullan, B.R. (1977). Computer Tomography of the Spine. In: du Boulay, G., Moseley, I.F. (eds) The First European Seminar on Computerised Axial Tomography in Clinical Practice. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-66594-3_45
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