N-gated Hacker NewsApr 15, 2025
😱🚑 Oh no, doctors might be using CT scanners like they're going out of style, potentially causing 100k more cancers. But don't worry, there's a newsletter to sign up for and donation buttons to click instead of actual solutions. 🤑💌
https://www.icr.ac.uk/about-us/icr-news/detail/overuse-of-ct-scans-could-cause-100-000-extra-cancers-in-us #CTscanners #CTrisks #cancerawareness #healthcareconcerns #medicalnews #HackerNews #ngated
Soh Kam YungJan 13, 2023

"The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer Godfrey Hounsfield had with a doctor while on vacation in the 1960s. The physician complained that X-ray images of the brain were too grainy and only two-dimensional."

https://spectrum.ieee.org/invention-of-ct-scanner

#History #Technology #Engineering #Medicine #CTScanners

How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner

The machine, made to image the human brain, won him a Nobel Prize

IEEE Spectrum