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Computed Tomography In the museum we display the first scanner (the sixth in the world) installed in 1974 in Belgium (city of Charleroi) in professor M.COLLARD’s ( 1934 - ) department (ULB). A computer is used to store the subsequent tomographic images, improve or color the images electronically and reproduce the images in sequence afterwards. It results in in-depth images of the various body tissues allowing the diagnosis of lesions and the follow-up of applied medication and treatments. Linking computer and tomograph was achieved during the research work, carried out in the seventies in England by G.HOUNSFIELD and A.CORMACK. Their work was sponsored by the firm E.M.I., producer of the very successful records of the "Beatles". The computer had been developed during World War II for deciphering the coded messages of the German and Japanese armies.