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Seldom, if ever, in the history of medicine has a new discovery swept the world so quickly as Computed Tomography. No large country now lacks this facility and certainly no important medical centre. All this has come about in half a decade in spite of the very great cost of the equipement.
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Bull, J. (1980). The History of Computed Tomography. In: Caillé, JM., Salamon, G. (eds) Computerized Tomography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-67513-3_1
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