| Reference number | EC/1975/16 |
| Previous numbers | Cert XIX, 164 |
| Level | Item |
| Title | Hounsfield, Godfrey Newbold: certificate of election to the Royal Society |
| Description | Citation typed |
| Citation | Distinguished for the application of the physical and mathematical sciences to the improvement of diagnostic radiotherapy. The fourth MacRobert Award of £25,000 for successful technological innovation was made in 1972 (the first to be presented undivided) to Mr Hounsfield for his 'one-man invention' of the 'EMI-scanner' computerised transverse axial tomography system. This obtains for each of two adjacent tomographic slices of the brain, 8 mm thick, scanned in four minutes without anaesthesia or invasive action, the X-ray absorption coefficient of each of a 80 x 80 matrix of 3 mm squares to 0.5% accuracy: Sufficient to distinguish between liquid blood and blood clots. |
| Access status | Closed |
Fellows associated with this archive
| Code | Name | Dates |
| NA4450 | Hounsfield; Sir; Godfrey Newbold (1919 - 2004) | 1919 - 2004 |