Overview of CT - Video Lesson

This lesson is in the overview of computed tomography. Computed tomography is easily one of the most important scientific innovations of the last one hundred years. You might know that the first CT scanners were head only units which generated just one image over a course of several hours. Today, things have changed. Some scanner collect over three hundred slices of image data in under one second. CT has become the backbone of acute stroke care trauma imaging, cancer imaging, and numerous other clinical considerations. Of special importance is the ability of a CT scanner to diagnose internal pathologies that previously required exploratory surgeries. As an example, the image that you see on the screen is a ruptured abdominal aorta, which may have required an exploratory surgery for affirmative diagnosis without CT. And the same thing when