Imagining the elephant: a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack. Christopher L. Vaughan

Imagining the elephant: a biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack



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Publisher: Imperial College Press
Language: English
Page: 323
ISBN: 1860949886, 9781860949883

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The introduction of the CAT scanner led to a major revolution in clinical medicine, and subsequent developments of the underlying principle of tomography and associated brain imaging techniques has led to further crucial medical developments as well as important discoveries concerning the way the brain functions. This meticulous biography sets out in detail the life of Alan Cormack, who first conceived of the use of tomography in medical contexts, and demonstrated it in a pilot experiment at the University of Cape Town in September 1957. The author takes great pains to set out this important story in its full personal, historical, and scientific context, including the award of the Nobel Prize to Cormack in 1979. The book provides a welcome exposition of the nature of scientific discovery in a particular important case. -- George F R Ellis, University of Cape Town, South AfricaThe introduction of the CAT scanner led to a major revolution in clinical medicine, and subsequent developments of the underlying principle of tomography and associated brain imaging techniques has led to further crucial medical developments as well as important discoveries concerning the way the brain functions. This meticulous biography sets out in detail the life of Alan Cormack, who first conceived of the use of tomography in medical contexts, and demonstrated it in a pilot experiment at the University of Cape Town in September 1957. The author takes great pains to set out this important story in its full personal, historical, and scientific context, including the award of the Nobel Prize to Cormack in 1979. The book provides a welcome exposition of the nature of scientific discovery in a particular important case. --George F R Ellis, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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This book will especially fascinate readers who are interested in how a rotating series of images can create cross-sectional images of the body ... Those interested in the history of science are indebted to Vaughan for producing this wonderful biography of Allan Cormack and for creating an expert and vivid description of one of the two streams of discovery that led to the invention of computed tomography.



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