title: Have CT--will travel: to boldly go where no scan has gone before.
abstract: In 1962, a new English rock-and-roll band named The Beatles signed a recording contract with Electric & Music Industries (EMI). The Beatles were so financially successful that EMI was able to fund research and development in other divisions of the company; in particular, the work of an enterprising young engineer named Godfrey Hounsfield. His groundbreaking work in x-ray imaging produced the first commercially available head-only CT scanner, and a Nobel Prize.
authors.forename: Lee H
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Schwamm
authors.forename: Sidney
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Starkman
mesh_terms: D004632:Emergency Medical Services / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D020521:Stroke / Q000628:therapy*; D015912:Thrombolytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*