Godfrey Hounsfield
British electrical engineer (1919–2004) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield CBE FRS HonFREng[1] (/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]
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Born | Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield 28 August 1919 Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, UK |
Died | 12 August 2004(2004-08-12) (aged 84) Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England, UK |
Nationality | English |
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Fields | Electrical engineer |
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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.