Godfrey Hounsfield

Sir Godfrey Hounsfield
CBE FRS HonFREng
Born
Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield

28 August 1919
Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, UK
Died12 August 2004(2004-08-12) (aged 84)
Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England, UK
NationalityEnglish
Known for
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsElectrical engineer

Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (/ˈhaʊnzfiːld/ HOWNZ-feeld; 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004)[2][3][4][5][6] was a British electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with Allan MacLeod Cormack for his part in developing the diagnostic technique of X-ray computed tomography (CT).[7][8][9][10][11]

His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans. The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HU), running from air at −1000 HU, through water at 0 HU, and up to dense cortical bone at +1000 HU[12][13] and more.

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  10. ^ Godfrey N. Hounsfield – Biographical. Entry about The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1979 on the website nobelprize.org. Retrieved 27 April 2021.
  11. ^ Sir Godfrey Hounsfield. Obituary in Daily Telegraph (17 August 2004).
  12. ^ Gunderman, Richard B. (2006). Essential Radiology: Clinical Presentation Pathophysiology Imaging. Thieme. p. 10. ISBN 1588900827.
  13. ^ Gunderman, Richard (2006). Essential Radiology. Thieme. p. 10. ISBN 1588900827