Older Than deck / Inventions and everyday things
CT scanner (first patient scan)
First used on a patient
1971
Godfrey Hounsfield’s scanner made X-ray pictures of slices through the body, first at Atkinson Morley Hospital in London.
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Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source; for dates the quote is the year as printed, read in context.
“on 1st October 1971.”St George’s University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust — original hospital history: source, retrieved 2026-10-28; quote re-found by the server check
“On 1st Oct 1971 he carried out the first CT scan on a live patient”UK Imaging and Oncology Congress / ROC Events Ltd — Elizabeth Beckmann (British Society for the History of Radiology), hosted by British Institute of Radiology: source, retrieved 2026-10-28; quote found in the PDF’s text by content-verify-pdf
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