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  James Robertson and his associates at Brookhaven National Laboratory built the first single-plane PET scan, nicknamed the "head-shrinker."
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  "The first clinical CT scan on a patient took place on 1st October 1971 at Atkinson Morley's Hospital, in London, England."
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  John Mallard and his team built the first full body MRI scan, and used it on August 28, 1980.
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  One of the first journals dedicated specifically to neural engineering is realised. This is one of the first times that neural engineering journals
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