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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.
The first commercially viable CT scanner was invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield in Hayes, United Kingdom, at EMI Central Research Laboratories using X-rays. Hounsfield conceived his idea in 1967. [14] The first EMI-Scanner was installed in Atkinson Morley Hospital in Wimbledon, England, and the first patient brain-scan was done on 1 October ...
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Allan MacLeod Cormack (February 23, 1924 – May 7, 1998) was a South African American physicist and Professor of Physics at Tufts University who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (along with Godfrey Hounsfield) for his work on X-ray computed tomography (CT), a significant and unusual achievement since Cormack did not hold a doctoral degree in any scientific field.
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Godfrey Hounsfield (1919–2004), English electrical engineer who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine Harold William Hounsfield Riley (1877–1946), Canadian politician Reginald Hounsfield (1882–1939), English footballer
1967 onwards: Computed Tomography and first commercial CT scanner invented by Sir Godfrey Hounsfield (1919–2004) in Hayes, Middlesex, at EMI Central Research Laboratories. 1969–1978: Development of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) by Patrick Christopher Steptoe (1913–1988) and Robert Geoffrey Edwards (1925–2013). [97]
Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield (1919–2004) United Kingdom: 1980 Baruj Benacerraf (1920–2011) Venezuela United States "for their discoveries concerning genetically determined structures on the cell surface that regulate immunological reactions" [80] Jean Dausset (1916–2009) France: George D. Snell (1903–1996) United States: 1981 Roger W. Sperry