Authors
Shevchenko Yu.L., Karpov O.E., Bronov O.Yu., Kitaev V.M.
Federal State Public Institution «National Medical and Surgical Center named after N.I. Pirogov» of the Ministry of Healthcare of the Russian Federation
Abstract
In 2019, it will be 40 years since the Nobel Prize was awarded for inventing a computer tomograph. Outlines the path traveled from the invention of X-rays to the present day. Biographical information on Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen, Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, Alan Cormack is given.
Keywords: computed tomography, Nobel prize, Pirogov, radiology, ice anatomy.
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