GODFREY HOUNSFIELD
Name: Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
Born: 28 August 1919
Died: 12 August 2004
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 X-ray computed tomography (CT).
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 HF), running from air at -1000 HF, through water at 0 HF, and up
to bone at +1000 HF.
Name: Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield
Born: 28 August 1919
Died: 12 August 2004
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 X-ray computed tomography (CT).
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 HF), running from air at -1000 HF, through water at 0 HF, and up
to bone at +1000 HF.