Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging

Re:Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging by car on Saturday October 02, 2021 @05:44PM (#28732354)

The fundamental invention of tomography was by by William Oldendorf who inspired Hounsfield.

He used a record turntable and a toy train to prototype his early ideas.

His egregious exclusion from the Nobel prize was deemed a political decision by the Europeans committee due to ongoing patent matters.

Edit: For anyone interested in medical tomography, check out the current cutting edge, a bedside(!) MRI using two huge rare earth magnets[2].

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Re:Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging by sandwall on Saturday October 02, 2021 @10:07PM (#28733933)

Oldendorf and Damadian (MRI) are great examples of Nobel blunders -- my money is on Takahashi for his significant contributions:

Steve Webb wrote an excellent book that traces the origins of radiological tomography:

These are some notes of mine for a presentation on the subject (relative to radiotherapy): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-2VAFzmkGu25YJM_QFLDiUB9vRv...

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