Japan's First Full-body X-ray CT Equipment

After concluding a sales agreement with EMI, Toshiba delivered Japan's first CT equipment for scanning the head in 1975, to Tokyo Women's Medical University.

Each piece of CT equipment was very expensive, costing hundreds of millions of yen.
Some felt the Japanese market could support the sale of only approximately 100 units.
However, its developers had great expectations for this equipment.
They were of the opinion that if the equipment could be developed further so that it could obtain images not only of the head but of the entire body, its use would spread further.
In 1975, Toshiba formed a group of engineers to begin its project to develop full-body CT equipment.
And three years later (in 1978) the first Japanese-made full-body CT equipment, the TCT-60A, was installed on the fourth floor of the National Cancer Center (NCC).