Godfrey Hounsfield

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (28 August 1919 - 12 August 2004) was an English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of computerized axial tomography (CAT).

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28 August - 1919 - 12 August - 2004 - English - Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine - Allan McLeod Cormack - Computerized axial tomography

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His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CAT scans. The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HF), running from air at -1000 HF, through water at 0 HF, and up to bone at +1000 HF.

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Hounsfield scale - Radiodensity

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