The Revolutionary Head Scan
Witness History
BBC
4.5 • 1.6K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2017
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
1983 saw a major breakthrough in the treatment of facial deformities. When the first three-dimensional reconstruction of a human head using CT scans was presented to the medical world. The images allowed plastic surgeons a far more precise way of planning surgical procedures. Farhana Haider has been speaking to radiologist Dr Michael Vannier who invented the 3D imaging technique which has revolutionised medicine.
Photo: Three-dimensional CT scan of a male skull and arterial system. Credit SPL
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| 1:04.6 | with me for Hana Hiva. And we're going back to the summer of 1983 and a major breakthrough |
| 1:10.0 | in the treatment of severe facial deformities. |
| 1:13.0 | This 12-year-old boy suffers from a birth defect which severely deformed the left side of his face. |
| 1:22.0 | And this patient severely fractured her right cheekbone in an auto accident. |
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