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Computed tomography (CT) using X-rays was the first imaging modality used in Medicine associating computer processing with data obtained from patients’ X-ray transmission. This innovative technique developed during the second half of the 1960s and available for clinical use in 1972 has brought a new vision about the contrast details of the patient’s body.

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