myESR - Computer tomograph EMI mark 1 was the first CT used in hospitals. Pictured below is a woman with a suspected brain lesion being scanned at Atkinson Moorley Hospital in London
![50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record company 50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record company](https://images.theconversation.com/files/423942/original/file-20210929-64926-b3svf8.png?ixlib=rb-1.1.0&q=45&auto=format&w=1000&fit=clip)
50 years ago, the first CT scan let doctors see inside a living skull – thanks to an eccentric engineer at the Beatles' record company
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