Toshiba Medical Systems has shipped its 15,000th CT scanner. The Tokyo-based vendor delivered its first CT system in 1978 to the National Cancer Center in Tokyo.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writersApril 12, 2004
Toshiba Medical Systems has shipped its 15,000th CT scanner. The Tokyo-based vendor delivered its first CT system in 1978 to the National Cancer Center in Tokyo.
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