#American #physicist and #radiologist who invented the #ACTA (Automatic Computerized Transverse A…
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#American #physicist and #radiologist who invented the #ACTA (Automatic Computerized Transverse Axial) diagnostic #X-ray scanner, the first whole-body computerized tomography (#CT) machine (U.S. patent no. 3,922,552) which revolutionized medical #diagnosis.
The ACTA can make a #three-dimensional analysis of all organs and parts of the body in a series of #cross-section images using thin X-ray beams and high power computer processing of the collected data. Using the ACTA, diagnosis of #tumours, #infection or #bleeding is possible even deep within large #organs, and it can give improved #radiationtherapy for #cancer. The framework could be tilted to give results from planes other than vertical.
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