MUST FOR EVERY PHYSICIAN * CTHEAD is an extremely useful diagnostic tool used routinely in the care of A&E patients. The treating physician needs to be able to accurately interpret and act upon certain CT findings without specialist (e.g., radiologist) assistance, because many disease processes are time dependent and require immediate action It has been shown that even a brief educational intervention can significantly improve the physician’s ability to interpret cranial CT scans.cS SCHEME OF THE LECTURE * BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CT SCAN * NORMAL NEUROANATOMY AS SEEN ON HEAD CT SCANS * ILLUSTRATIONS BASIC PRINCIPLES OF CT SCANcS HISTORY * Sir Godfrey hounsfield-1972 * Nobel prize in 1979 * Original scanners took approximately 6 minutes to perform a rotation (one slice) and 20 minutes to reconstruct. Despite many technological advances since then, the principles remain the same. EE i SS PARTS 1) Gantry- which houses X ray apparatus 2) X ray tube-akin to that in a X ray machine. 3) Detectors 4) Patient couch 5) Viewing console