The story behind the development of the first whole-body computerized tomography scanner as told by Robert S. Ledley.
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Abstract
“The army called me down to New York [in 1950]. I was with New York University (NYU)—and the colonel said to me, ‘Well, if you volunteer to be in the army, then you'll become a lieutenant, an officer. But if you don't volunteer, you'll be drafted anyway, and sent to boot camp. So I volunteered. And they sent me to medical field service school in Fort Sam Houston, Texas. And that was kind of interesting. And then, I guess my card dropped out, they wanted a dentist who was a physicist. And that was me.” Robert S. Ledley
Medical subject headings
- Tomography Scanners, X-Ray Computed