Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold

Michael A Sutton, Northumbria University, UK

Published online: March 2008

DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002832.pub2

Godfrey Hounsfield (1919–2004), a British physicist who pioneered Computer Axial Tomography (CAT) scanning, using computer analysis of X-ray data to produce three-dimensional body images.

Keywords: X-ray; CAT; scanning; radiography; MRI

 Further Reading
    Anonymous (1979) News. Physics Today 32: 12, 17–20.
    other Anonymous (2004) Obituary: Sir Godfrey Hounsfield. The Times 18 August.
    Hounsfield GN and Brown PH (1973) Computerised transverse axial scanning (tomography). British Journal of Radiography 46: 1086.
    book McMurray EJ (ed.) (1995) Notable 20th Century Scientists, vol. 2, pp. 957–958. New York: Gale Research.
    Richmond C (2004) Obituary: Sir Godfrey Hounsfield. BMJ 329: 687(18 September).
 Web Links
    ePath http://www.nobel.se/medicine/laureates/1979.
    ePath http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/medicine/laureates/1979/hounsfield-autobio.html.

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Sutton, Michael A(Mar 2008) Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold. In: eLS. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester. http://www.els.net [doi: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0002832.pub2]