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CT and MRI scanners enable doctors to reduce the human body to slices just a few millimetres thick. Until the arrival of CT and MRI scanners in around 1980, it was not possible to do so. At the time, X-ray images were unable to show us individual slices of the body.
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Hendrikse, J. (2017). CT and MRI Scans: The Basic Principles. In: This is Our Brain. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-4148-8_1
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