The Applications of Industrial CT
?Computed tomography?, or CT was invented in 1972 by Godfrey Hounsfield, an engineer from Britain, and Tufts University physicist Alan Cormack, who later shared the Nobel Prize for their work. Commonly called CAT scans, for computed axial tomography, these imaging machines have well known clinical applications, assisting in the diagnosis and treatment of patients worldwide. Despite its well-known medical uses, there are many problematic aspects of employing a computed tomography scan on humans or animals. These issues range from the effects of radiation on living tissue to the fact that the machine is required to revolve around the subject. These detractors and others are eliminated in industrial computed tomography applications. Machines, after all, have no risk of death from radiation sickness and have no objection to being maneuvered around a…