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Godfrey Hounsfield
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English electrical engineer (1919–2004)
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Godfrey N. Hounsfield was a male person from the United Kingdom. He was born on 1919-08-28 and 1919-08-18, and died on 2004-08-12. His professional output includes five works.
Hounsfield received one Nobel Prize. He is recognized in the Royal Society collection, the Nobel Laureates collection, the Nobel Medicine collection, and the National Inventors Hall Of Fame collection.
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5 total works indexed
- PRISMA Extension for Scoping Reviews (PRISMA-ScR): Checklist and Explanation
· 2018 · cited 36,179x
- Global Burden of Cardiovascular Diseases and Risk Factors, 1990–2019
· 2020 · cited 10,224x
- Global burden of 87 risk factors in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019
· 2020 · cited 7,999x
- Observation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC
· 2012 · cited 6,794x
- The genetic legacy of the Quaternary ice ages
· 2000 · cited 6,056x
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine1979
“for the development of computer assisted tomography”
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Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (/ˈhaʊnzfiːld/ HOWNZ-feeld; 28 August 1919 – 12 August 2004) 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).
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 and more.
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