title: Anniversary paper. Development of x-ray computed tomography: the role of medical physics and AAPM from the 1970s to present.
abstract: The AAPM, through its members, meetings, and its flagship journal Medical Physics, has played an important role in the development and growth of x-ray tomography in the last 50 years. From a spate of early articles in the 1970s characterizing the first commercial computed tomography (CT) scanners through the "slice wars" of the 1990s and 2000s, the history of CT and related techniques such as tomosynthesis can readily be traced through the pages of Medical Physics and the annals of the AAPM and RSNA/AAPM Annual Meetings. In this article, the authors intend to give a brief review of the role of Medical Physics and the AAPM in CT and tomosynthesis imaging over the last few decades.
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA. xpan@uchicago.edu
authors.forename: Xiaochuan
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Pan
authors.forename: Jeffrey
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Siewerdsen
authors.forename: Patrick J
authors.initials: PJ
authors.lastname: La Riviere
authors.forename: Willi A
authors.initials: WA
authors.lastname: Kalender
mesh_terms: D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009686:Nuclear Physics; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D012955:Societies, Medical; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends
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