Computed Tomography (CT) was introduced in 1972 by Hounsfield and Cormack as an innovative departure from traditional X-ray technology used in medical applications and efforts in that field were awarded a Noble Prize in medicine [1]. The origin of the name comes from Greek tomos (slice) and graphein (to write). A CT image provides a three - dimensional representation of an object derived from a series of two - dimensional images combined into a 3D representation of a part or assembly, FIGURES 16, 17, 19. While the first CT image took nine days to be produced, today it may take only seconds to collect the data and reconstruct a 3D image. With the rapid increase in computing.
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