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X-ray of Roentgen’s Wife’s Hand
simplify things we shine the X-rays onto the head as a narrow slit of light so we only have to do the back calculation in two dimensions. Then we stitch successive slices together in the computer to form a 3D virtual image. Thus, doctors can ‘fly’ through the brain looking at structures such as tumors from all angles.
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