Well, it’s the battle of the acronyms – digital breast tomosynthesis (DBT) versus breast computed tomography (BCT) – in the […]
Posts Tagged ‘Allan Cormack’
The Rule of Three
The second week in October is when the world’s leading scientists eagerly await a telephone call from Stockholm with life-changing […]
Our Dunkirk Moment
The Battle of Dunkirk, fought between 26 May and 4 June 1940, marked a turning point in World War Two. During […]
Coming Full Circle
On Friday 6 January 1956, Allan Cormack arrived for work at Groote Schuur Hospital, having been appointed as part-time nuclear physicist, spending […]
Celebrating BME@50
Yesterday marked an important milestone for the field of biomedical engineering (BME) in Cape Town as it celebrated its 50th […]
What a Great Idea!
Not too many people know that the world’s first digital laser was invented in South Africa, or that in the 1980s two […]
Anatomy of a Biography
When Allan MacLeod Cormack, joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1979 for “the development of computer assisted tomography” passed […]
First Laugh, Then Think
It’s that time of year again when we anxiously wait to learn who will be awarded a Nobel Prize for […]
CapeTalk Features CapeRay
The first rule of marketing is to grab every opportunity that comes along to promote your company and its brand. […]
The Forgotten Man of X-rays
Three Nobel Prizes have been awarded in medical imaging: for computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), and X-rays. When […]