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sandwall · 2021-10-03 · Original thread
Oldendorf and Damadian (MRI) are great examples of Nobel blunders -- my money is on Takahashi for his significant contributions:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258406/

Steve Webb wrote an excellent book that traces the origins of radiological tomography:

https://www.amazon.com/Watching-Shadows-Origins-Radiological...

These are some notes of mine for a presentation on the subject (relative to radiotherapy): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-2VAFzmkGu25YJM_QFLDiUB9vRv...

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