Multiple choice

Directions: In which year given discovery/invention was made:

CAT Scanner

  1. 1884

  2. 1968

  3. 1897

  4. 1939

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B Correct answer
Explanation

The CAT scanner (Computed Axial Tomography scanner) was invented by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield at EMI Central Research Laboratories and physicist Allan Cormack in 1967. The first clinical prototype was installed and used in 1971, but the foundational invention date is widely credited to 1968.

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