There's More Than One Way to Scan a CAT . . .
November 19, 2006
Barry A. Cipra
CAT scans, introduced in the 1970s, have saved or improved the lives of innumerable people. A staple of modern medical science, they are also widely used in industry to check the integrity of hard-to-get-at pipes and processes. In many ways, computational tomography is a "mature" technology.