NEWS STORY: Dr. Robert Ledley, 86, inventor of modern CT scanning

Posted: July 27, 2012 / Source: http://www.boston.com

Robert S. Ledley, a dentist turned biomedical researcher and computing trailblazer who invented the first CT scanner capable of producing cross-sectional images of any part of the ­human body, died Tuesday in Kensington, Md. He was 86.

The cause was Alzheimer’s disease, his son Fred said.

Nearly every field of medicine has been affected by the whole-body CT scanner, short for computerized tomography. ‘‘Many of the CT scanners we see in hospitals are based on the Ledley design,’’ said Joseph A. November, a professor of history at the University of South Carolina, who is writing a biography of Dr. Ledley.

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