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Garrison-Morton-Norman History of Medicine
HOUNSFIELD, Sir Godfrey Newbold (1919 – 2004)

HOUNSFIELD, Sir Godfrey Newbold (1919 – 2004)

1919 – 2004

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1973 CE

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Computerized transverse axial scanning (tomography).

HOUNSFIELD, Sir Godfrey Newbold (1919 – 2004)
HOUNSFIELD, Sir Godfrey Newbold (1919 – 2004)

Hounsfield invented computer-assisted tomography (CAT), or computed tomography (CT). In 1979 Hounsfield shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Allen M. Cormack "for the development of computer assisted …