First Clinical CT (1972)

Godfrey Hounsfield at EMI Laboratories builds and clinically tests the first CT scanner (EMI Mark I). First clinical scan October 1, 1971 at Atkinson Morley Hospital, London. Commercial installation 1972.

Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979, shared with Allan Cormack (who independently developed the reconstruction mathematics).

Descends to

• Every CT scanner modern and legacy
• LightSpeed family
• SOMATOM family