By Christopher L. Vaughan. 304 pp., illustrated. London, Imperial College Press, 2008. $48. ISBN 978-1-86094-988-3.
Sixteen years short of the centennial of Wilhelm Roentgen'sdiscovery of the x-ray, the Nobel Committee recognized a signaldevelopment in the use of the ray that would revolutionize medicalpractice. In 1979, Allan MacLeod Cormack shared with GodfreyHounsfield the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for thedevelopment of computer-assisted tomography. Cormack, unlikeHounsfield, who became famous with the development of the firstcommercial medical computed tomographic (CT) device in 1973,was relatively unknown while he was working in academia. Investigatingwhat he called the "line integral function," a basis of CT thatwas described in the Journal . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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