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	Godfrey Hounsfield - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CAT scans.
		Hounsfield built the prototype head scanner and tested it first on a preserved human brain, then on a fresh cow brain from a butcher shop, and later on himself.
		Hounsfield was born on a farm in Nottinghamshire, England.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Godfrey_Hounsfield (468 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Sir Godfrey Hounsfield
		Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, who died on August 12 aged 84, led the team which developed Britain's first big solid-state computer before inventing the computerised axial tomography (CAT) scanner for use in clinical diagnosis; in recognition of this latter achievement he was awarded the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
		Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, the youngest of five children of a farmer near Newark in Nottinghamshire, was born on August 28 1919.
		Godfrey Hounsfield was appointed CBE in 1976 and knighted in 1981.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/08/17/db1701.xml (1049 words)

	Sir Godfrey Hounsfield; helped develop the CT scan; 84 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, a British electrical engineer whose work in creating the computerized axial tomography scanner, the CT scan, a diagnostic tool used in hospitals worldwide, brought him a Nobel Prize, died Aug. 12 at New Victoria Hospital in Kingston upon Thames, England.
		Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was born Aug. 28, 1919, in Newark, England, the youngest child of a farmer.
		Sir Godfrey was elected a fellow of the Royal Society in 1975, and was knighted in 1981.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20040903/news_1m3hounsfiel.html (539 words)

	Godfrey Hounsfield biography .ms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		He then set to work constructing a computer that could take input from x-rays at various angles to create an image of the object in "slices." Applying this possibility to the medical field led him to propose what is now known as computerized axial tomography.
		At the time, Hounsfield was not aware of the work that Cormack had done on the theorectical mathmatics for such a device.
		His name is immortalised in the Hounsfield scale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity.
	godfrey-newbold-hounsfield.biography.ms (372 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| The Guardian \| Obituary: Sir Godfrey Hounsfield
		Hounsfield was born in a village near Newark, in Nottinghamshire.
		Hounsfield's initial system had been directed at examinations of the skull and brain, and in a few years it led to the so-called fourth generation of computed tomographs.
		Hounsfield was a bachelor and enjoyed walking in the mountains and leading country rambles.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,3604,1285893,00.html (944 words)

	Blog of Death: Godfrey Hounsfield
		Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, a British electrical engineer and Nobel laureate who pioneered the development of the CAT scan, died on Aug. 12.
		Although Hounsfield was born near Newark, England, and raised on a farm, his interest in science developed at an early age.
		In 1967, Hounsfield was taking a walk through the countryside when he first dreamed of a machine that could process hundreds of X-ray beams to obtain an internal display of a box.
	www.blogofdeath.com /archives/001152.html (452 words)

	Nobel Laureate Godfrey Hounsfield (washingtonpost.com)
		Godfrey Hounsfield, 84, who developed the first practical CAT scan machine and shared a Nobel Prize in 1979 for inventing CAT scan technology, died Aug. 12 at a hospital in Kingston upon Thames, England.
		Hounsfield, who worked at EMI laboratories' medical research division, as "the central figure in computer-assisted tomography." The device uses X-rays to scan from different angles and a computer to assemble the images into a cross section.
		Hounsfield made a patent application that was granted in 1972, the year he tested the first device.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/articles/A25086-2004Aug22.html (375 words)

	Pensioner Topics > Obituaries > Sir Godfrey Hounsfield 1919 - 2004 - ICL Pensioners
		The name of Sir Godfrey Hounsfield may not be familiar to the readers of Bits and Bytes or to those who did not come from an EMI background in computers.
		Hounsfield conceived the idea for a CAT scanner on a weekend ramble in the country and on his return to EMI’s research laboratories at Hayes in Middlesex, he began working on a device that could process hundreds of X-ray beams to obtain a three —dimensional display of the inside of a living organism.
		Hounsfield came from a farming background in Nottinghamshire.At an early stage he became intrigued by the farms’s mechanical and electrical machinery and by the age of 11 he had begun to experiment, constructing electrical recording machines.
	uk.fujitsu.com /pensioner/topics/obituaries/sirgodfreyhounsfield (579 words)

	Self-taught pioneer of CT scan - Obituaries - www.smh.com.au
		Hounsfield conceived the idea for a CT scanner in 1967 during a weekend ramble in the country.
		Introduced in 1973, early CT scanners were used to overcome obstacles in the diagnosis of diseases of the brain; Hounsfield subsequently modified his machine to enable it to scan the whole body.
		Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was the youngest of five children of a farmer near Newark in Nottinghamshire.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2004/09/02/1093939066254.html (1050 words)

	OBIT-Hounsfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hounsfield died Aug. 12 at New Victoria Hospital in Kingston upon Thames.
		In 1968, Hounsfield made a patent application which was granted in 1972, the year he tested the first device.
		Hounsfield never attended a university but had begun experimenting with electrical and mechanical devices as a boy growing up on a family farm in Nottinghamshire.
	www.cp.org /english/online/full/health/040820/x082010A.html (363 words)

	Encyclopedia: Godfrey Hounsfield (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		CAT apparatus in a hospital Computed axial tomography (CAT), computer-assisted tomography, computed tomography, CT, or body section roentgenography is the process of using digital processing to generate a three-dimensional image of the internals of an object from a large series of two-dimensional X-ray images taken around...
		The Hounsfield scale is a quantitative scale for describing radiodensity.
		Jump to: navigation, search A professor giving a lecture at the Helsinki University of Technology A university is an institution of higher education and of research, which grants academic degrees.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Godfrey-Hounsfield (1330 words)

	ninemsn Encarta - Search Results - Hounsfield Sir Godfrey Newbold (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold (1919-2004), British electronics engineer who co-developed one of the 20th century’s most important medical...
		The invention of CT is accredited to two individuals who worked independently: Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, a British electronics engineer, and Allan...
		Kneller, Sir Godfrey (1646-1723), German-born portrait painter who spent most of his career in England.
	au.encarta.msn.com /Hounsfield_Sir_Godfrey_Newbold.html (98 words)

	A Science Odyssey: People and Discoveries: CT scan and MRI introduced
		Her physicians suspected she had a brain lesion, and with Hounsfield's equipment they were able to see clearly a dark, circular cyst in her brain.
		Hounsfield called this technology a CT (computerized tomography) scan, also called a CAT scan (computerized axial tomography).
		Hounsfield was knighted and won the 1979 Nobel Prize.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dh72ct.html (341 words)

	AVMI - Computed Tomography
		A Brief History of CT CT was invented in 1972 by British engineer Godfrey Hounsfield of EMI Laboratories, England, and independently by South African born physicist Allan Cormack of Tufts University, Massachusetts.
		Hounsfield was later awarded the Nobel Prize and honored with Knighthood in England for his contributions to medicine and science.
		The first CT scanner developed by Hounsfield in his lab at EMI took several hours to acquire the raw data for a single scan or "slice" and took days to reconstruct a single image from this raw data.
	www.avmi.net /NewFiles/CT/CT.html (1142 words)

	Godfrey N. Hounsfield, Sir Biography / Biography of Godfrey N. Hounsfield, Sir Anatomy and Physiology Biography
		Sir Godfrey Hounsfield pioneered a leap forward in medical diagnosis: computerized axial tomography, popularly known as the "CAT scan." Ushering in a new and sometimes controversial era of medical technology, Hounsfield's device allowed a doctor to look inside a patient's body and examine a three-dimensional image far more detailed than a conventional x ray.
		Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was born in Newark, England, the youngest of five children of a steel-industry engineer turned farmer.
		Hounsfield's technical interests began when, to prevent boredom, he began figuring out how the machinery on his father's farm worked.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-godfrey-n-hounsfield-sir-wap (885 words)

	Hounsfield, Sir Godfrey Newbold
		Hounsfield extended the capability of a computer so that it could interpret X-ray signals so as to form a two-dimensional image of a complex object such as the human head.
		Computers soon evolved to the stage needed for processing the signals from the scanners at the same rate they were obtained, and in 1972 the first clinical test of CAT scanning was performed successfully.
		For his work Hounsfield received numerous awards in addition to the Nobel Prize, and he was knighted in 1981.
	www.britannica.com /nobel/micro/278_45.html (249 words)

	Godfrey N. Hounsfield Biography / Biography of Godfrey N. Hounsfield History of Scientific Discovery Biography
		Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was born August 28, 1919, in Newark, England, the youngest of five children of a steel-industry engineer turned farmer.
		When World War II erupted, Hounsfield volunteered for the Royal Air Force (RAF), where he studied and later lectured on the new and vital technology of radar at the RAF's Cranwell Radar School.
		Hounsfield moved on to positions as chief staff scientist and then senior staff scientist for Thorn EMI.
	www.bookrags.com /biography-godfrey-n-hounsfield-wsd (746 words)

	Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine
		Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine
		Godfrey Hounsfield and the Invention of Cat Scans (Unlocking the Secrets of Science) by Susan Zannos
		Godfrey N. Hounsfield — Autobiography (submitted by Eva)
	almaz.com /nobel/medicine/1979b.html (66 words)

	Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		British scientist Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield was born in Newark, Nottinghamshire, on Aug. 28, 1919.
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		May 7, 1998, Winchester, Mass.), formulated the mathematical algorithms that made possible the development of the cross-sectional X-ray imaging process known as computerized axial tomography (CAT) scanning, for which he was awarded a share of the 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9326700?tocId=9326700&query=godfrey (722 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Godfrey Hounsfield shared a Nobel Prize in 1979 with American Allan Cormack for inventing the scanner technology.
		Hounsfield developed his machine without knowing of Cormack's work.
		The Nobel Committee described Hounsfield as "the central figure in computer-assisted tomography." The device uses X-rays to scan from different angles and a computer to assemble the images into a cross-section.
	www.wggb.com /archive/obits/hounsfield.htm (139 words)

	8/19/04 CT inventor Godfrey Hounsfield dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Sir Godfrey N. Hounsfield, who won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine for inventing computed axial tomography, died Aug. 12.
		Hounsfield conceived the idea for a CAT scanner in 1967.
		Hounsfield's own words best describe the genesis of CT scanning.
	www.diagnosticimaging.com /dinews/2004081901.shtml (813 words)

	Making the Modern World - Godfrey Hounsfield
		Hounsfield developed a keen interest in mechanical and electrical gadgets while growing up on his father's farm.
		In 1967 Hounsfield had the idea which eventually became the CAT technique.
		Computers soon developed the requisite processing power and in 1972 Hounsfield produced the first detailed images of cross-sections of the human body, allowing doctors to see inside their patients as never before.
	www.makingthemodernworld.org.uk /people/BG.0074 (248 words)

	Telegraph \| Health \| Doctor's diary: fathers of progress
		The late Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, inventor of the CT (computerised tomography) scanner, was, as his obituary made clear last week, a genius in the finest traditions of the British boffin.
		Few will be aware that Hounsfield was one of a trio of brilliant British scientists who have revolutionised the practice of medicine over the past 30 years.
		Hounsfield's CT scanner changed all that by processing hundreds of X-ray beams through a computer to construct a three-dimensional picture of the brain.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /health/main.jhtml?xml=/health/2004/08/24/hdoc24.xml&sSheet=/health/2004/08/24/ixhfeatures.html (702 words)

	RSNA 2004 - Dedication
		Dr Hounsfield died in August 2004 at the age of 84.
		Dr Hounsfield never attended a university and was largely self-taught.
		Near the end of his EMI tenure, Hounsfield expanded his work in diagnostic imaging to include magnetic resonance.
	rsna2004.rsna.org /rsna2004/V2004/index.cvn?id=66606&p_navID=272 (493 words)

	Magnetic Resonance Imagin... - The Science of Imaging
		One was the work of British electronics engineer Godfrey Hounsfield, who in 1971 built an instrument that combined an x-ray machine and a computer and used certain principles of algebraic reconstruction to scan the body from many directions--manipulating the images to produce a kind of cutaway view of the interior.
		Unknown to Hounsfield, South African nuclear physicist Allan Cormack had published essentially the same idea in 1963, using a reconstruction technique called the Radon transform.
		Although Cormack's work was not widely circulated, in 1979 he and Hounsfield shared the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the development of computerized tomography, or CT. The principles underlying CT are the foundation of many sophisticated imaging methods in use today.
	www.beyonddiscovery.org /content/view.page.asp?I=134 (923 words)

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