Word: hounsfield
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DIED. SIR GODFREY HOUNSFIELD, 84, British electrical engineer who invented the C.T. scan, a diagnostic tool that revolutionized medical care; in London. In the 1960s he built the computerized axial tomography scanner, which uses X rays to give doctors a three-dimensional, cross-sectional view of the body's interior. The innovation brought him the 1979 Nobel Prize, which he shared with South African scientist Allan Cormack, who had worked independently on the idea...
...DIED. SIR GODFREY HOUNSFIELD, 84, British electrical engineer who invented the CAT scan, a diagnostic tool that revolutionized medical care; in London. Hounsfield built the computerized axial tomography scanner in the 1960s; it uses X rays to give doctors a three-dimensional, cross-sectional view of the body's interior. The innovation brought him the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine, which he shared with South African scientist Allan Cormack, who worked independently on the idea...