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@ideogram spinoff.nasa.gov/spinoff1998/e

"Computed tomography, widely known as CT or CATScan, is a medical diagnostic technique for comprehensive body scanning. It incorporates digital image processing technology that traces its origin to NASA research and development performed as a prelude to the Apollo program. Millions of people around the world benefit each year from the medical applications of this technology."

This is a wonderful example of something many people do not know the original traces of, things that would not have been possible without the desire to visit the Moon. But part of NASA's charter allows for ALL to benefit from the advances made (very different from what happens under billionaire control!)

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ideogram

@sunguramy
Fair enough. Thank you for teaching me something!

Sammi

@ideogram @sunguramy yeah this is not really true either. JPL developed software that went on to be used in MRIs and CT scans. Hence the NASA article. The scanning technology was invented by a guy in the states in 1963.... But the first useable CT scanner was developed in the UK by EMI.

ideogram

@SamanthaJaneSmith
Do explain? Did Allan MacLeod Cormack work at JPL?
@sunguramy

Sammi

@ideogram @sunguramy Sorry I wasn't clear I was trying not to write an essay. JPL developed digital topographic software for rock analysis, this was a first and used in scanners worldwide. Cormack developed the original theory and Hounsfield made the first practical scanner. As is usual in science one person built on another.

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