Godfrey Hounsfield
Sir Godfrey Hounsfield | |
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| Born | Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield 28 August 1919 Sutton-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England, UK |
| Died | 12 August 2004 (aged 84) Kingston upon Thames, Greater London, England, UK |
| Nationality | English |
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| Fields | Electrical engineer |
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.