ABSTRACT
With the development of modern computers and X-ray applications, X-ray CT became feasible in the 1960s. Godfrey N. Hounsfield, a British engineer, is the inventor of computed tomography with its successful practical implementation in 1972 at EMI Central Research Laboratory in the United Kingdom, although many people have contributed to the development of computed tomography. The medical community became very receptive for X-ray CT after the first medical images were obtained at Atkinson Morley Hospital in London in 1972 (Kalender, 2006). Hounsfield, an engineer, and Cornack, a physicist, were awarded the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1979 for their contribution to X-ray CT.
