English electrical engineer (1919–2004)
Godfrey Hounsfield was an English electrical engineer who invented the CT scanner, a medical imaging technology that revolutionized how doctors could see inside the human body without surgery. His invention earned him the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979 and fundamentally changed modern medical diagnosis and treatment.
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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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