Post by Dr M Fahed Q.

𝗕𝗼𝗿𝗻 𝗧𝗼𝗱𝗮𝘆: Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (28 Aug 1919 - 12 Aug 2004) English electrical engineer who shared 1979 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine (with Allan Cormack) for creation of computerised axial tomography (CAT) scanners. He originated the idea during a country walk in 1967 when he realized that the contents of a box could be reconstructed by taking readings at all angles through it. He applied the concept for scanning the brain using hundreds of X-ray beams imaging cross-sections that were reconstructed as high-resolution graphics by a computer program handling complex algebraic calculations. By 1973 his CAT scanner could produce cross-section images of a brain in 4-1/2-min, invaluable for the diagnosis of brain diseases. He later built larger machines able to make a full body scan. #technology #invention