Survival rates for sepsis depend on the patient's underlying medical conditions, how quickly the diagnosis is made, the organism that causes the infection, and the patient's age. People at Risk for Sepsis
The first image scanner developed for use with a computer was a drum scanner. It was built in 1957 at the US National Bureau of Standards by a team led by Russell A. Kirsch. The first image ever scanned on this machine was a 5 cm square photograph of Kirsch's then-three-month-old son, Walden.
Moniz, a neurologist, accomplished the first cerebral arteriogram in 1927. Oldendorf himself developed the basis for computerized tomography (CT) in 1961 and the technique was applied to clinical diagnosis by an electrical engineer, Hounsfield, in 1973. Finally, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) was introduced.