--- title: Image Is Everything image: https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/hubfs/CC%20Magazine/Centennial/1970s/Image%20is%20Everything/Centennial-ImageEverything-Social.jpg --- [![Cleveland Clinic Magazine - Giving Does Good | Centennial](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/hs-fs/hubfs/CC%20Magazine%20Template%20Assets/img/logo-cc-magazine-centennial-mb-inverse.png?noresize&width=224&height=38&name=logo-cc-magazine-centennial-mb-inverse.png) ![Cleveland Clinic Magazine - Giving Does Good | Centennial](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/hs-fs/hubfs/CC%20Magazine%20Template%20Assets/img/logo-cc-magazine-centennial-inverse.png?noresize&width=552&height=65&name=logo-cc-magazine-centennial-inverse.png)](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-centennial?hsLang=en) [Donate](https://give.ccf.org/CCMAG) THE 1970s # Image Is Everything ## Share - [Share on facebook](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-centennial/image-is-everything&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook) - [Share on twitter](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-centennial/image-is-everything&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&url=https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-centennial/image-is-everything&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&source=tweetbutton&text=) - [Share on linkedin](http://www.linkedin.com/shareArticle?mini=true&url=https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-centennial/image-is-everything&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin) - [Share on email](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20Image%20Is%20Everything%20&body=Check%20out%20https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/2021-centennial/image-is-everything&utm_medium=social&utm_source=email) ![Dr. Thomas Meaney smiling, looking at the camera, sitting in front of a computed tomography scanner.](https://magazine.clevelandclinic.org/hs-fs/hubfs/CC%20Magazine/Centennial/1970s/Image%20is%20Everything/Centennial-ImageEverything-Wide.jpg?width=1030&height=540&name=Centennial-ImageEverything-Wide.jpg) Photo: Cleveland Clinic Archives ## Also in 1973: "The Godfather" wins Academy Award for Best Picture Skylab space station launched Secretariat is first Triple Crown winner in 25 years The British conglomerate EMI gave the world not only the Beatles, but the CT (computed tomography) scanner. In 1973, Thomas Meaney, MD, Chair of Radiology at Cleveland Clinic, went to England to check out the new technology, which provided cross-sectional anatomical images. Impressed, he purchased a CT scanner — one of only four in existence at the time — for his employer. 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