THE EVOLUTION

OF CT SCANS
BY SUKHMANI BHINDER
Alessandro
Vallebona
THE CREATION OF THE CT SCAN

early 1900s 1960s 1971 1980

In the early 1900s, an
Italian radiologist named
Alessandro Vallebona invented
tomography which used
radiographic film to see a single
slice of the body​
It was popularly rumoured that In 1971 the first patient brain CT By 1980, 3 Million CT scans had
The Beatles record sales in the was performed in England but it been done and by 2005, that
1960s supported the fund the was not announced until a year figure had risen to over 68
first CT scan’s advancement later Million CT scans yearly

In 1967, Sir Godfrey Hounsfield Raymond Damadian created the In 1973, the first CT scanners
developed the first CT scanner very first MRI scanner in the were installed in the United
using x-ray technology 1970s by hand States

1967 1970 1973

WHAT A CT SCANNER IS LIKE TODAY

1990s 2010
During the 1990s “Portable/Mobile CT” scanners began to The FDA started their Initiative to Reduce Unnecessary
become popular Radiation Exposure from Medical Imaging in 2010, which drew
more recognition to decreasing radiation dosage with CT scans

A new creation of CT scanners was developed in 2008 so that it

could capture images of beating hearts or coronary arteries in
less than one second

2008
 As the use of technology increases CT scans
will become more efficient and less time
consuming

WHAT WILL CT
SCANS LOOK LIKE IN The future of radiology is A.I

THE FUTURE?

The 2017 Data Science Bowl organized by

Booz Allen Hamilton and Kaggle tried
detecting lung cancer with the assistance of
smart algorithms using anonymized lung
scans.
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