CT Detection Systems

Full Text:Godfrey N. Housnfield received the Nobel Prize in 1979 for inventing Computed Tomography in 1967. Since then the invention has evolved and is part of everyday diagnostics in every hospital. The first clinical Computed Tomography was installed in 1971. Since middle seventies a group of Physicists and Engineers have been development Computed Tomography in Haifa, under the name of different companies. The group started as Elscint, was bought by Picker in 1999, then modified the name to Marconi and was bought by Philips in 2002. Several of the first developments of Computed Tomography systems were done in Haifa, in particular in the detectors. Among several firsts, he first Solid State Computed Tomography detector and first multi-slice Computed Tomography should be mentioned. The evolution of Computed Tomography detection systems will be described. Nowadays Multi Slice Computed Tomography Detectors enable new applications like Computed Tomography Angiography and virtual Colonoscopy. The evolution of Computed Tomography detection systems will be described, from single slice to today 64 slice arrays and beyond