"They tried hard to educate me but I responded only to physics and mathematics with any ease and moderate enthusiasm."
Remembering the co-developer of the CAT scan, Godfrey Hounsfield, who was born on this day 101 years ago.
Growing up on a farm with mechanical and electrical gadgets, Hounsfield's interest in electrical engineering was awoken at an early age. He quickly became intrigued by what machines could accomplish and be used for.
During the 1960s, Hounsfield developed an apparatus in which clusters of X-ray beams sent through the body from different angles are registered when they have passed the body. Through advanced computer calculations based on the measurement data, three-dimensional images of different cross sections of the body are created. The CT or CAT scan was born.
Godfrey Hounsfield shared the 1979 Medicine Prize with Allan Cormack "for the development of computer assisted tomography (CAT)."
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