The Imaging Revolution: From Film to CT and MRI

1971: a computer reconstructs the body in slices. Hounsfield, Cormack, Mansfield and the jump from shadow pictures to CT and MRI.

Playlist by @birth_of_radiology

10 tracks, shared on Audicious.

  1. History of Computerized Tomography (CT Scanner) — Doctor Klioze
  2. MRI: Physics & a brief history — Doctor Klioze
  3. The EMI scanner (1975) — Wellcome Library
  4. Sir Peter Mansfield talks about the development of MRI — University of Nottingham
  5. From NMR to MRI: How an Obscure Research Instrument Became a Familiar Medical Technology | JPS — Science History Institute
  6. The Past, Present and Future of MRI | Ep 1/3 — Everything MRI
  7. A Brief History of the CT Scan: 52 years in 25 slides — CTisus
  8. The MRI- A History — CobraChicken
  9. Hounsfield Units (Where do CT numbers come from?) — How Radiology Works
  10. “The Story of the MRI” - Raymond V. Damadian, MD — Bobby Jones Chiari & Syringomyelia Foundation