The Beatles were indirectly responsible for
funding the development of the CT (CAT) scanner. Their record label,
EMI, also operated a computer research facility that once employed
Godfrey Hounsfield, who had been developing X-ray computerized
tomography (CT) in the late '60s. Researchers and radiologists claim
that EMI invested the profits they earned from the Beatles' music
into Hounsfield's technology, allowing for the invention of a
commercial CT scanner (then known as an EMI scanner) by the early
1970s.