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The self-taught tinker who created CT

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack, for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography, or, CT. Hounsfield was the baby of a prominent farming family in Nottinghamshire, England, born in 1919. He was the…

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Imaging issues addressed by states in 2018

The American College of Radiology has released its annual report on state-level issues around the radiology profession. Avoiding federal gridlock, many state legislatures are finding their own solutions to questions facing health care delivery in the country as a whole. The American College of Radiology (ACR) tracked nearly 600 radiology-related bills proposed by state legislatures…

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