The Hounsfield scale (/ˈhaʊnzfiːld/HOWNZ-feeld), named after Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, is a quantitative scale for describing radiodensity. It is frequently used in CT scans, where its value is also termed CT number.
The Hounsfieldscale (/ˈhaʊnzfiːld/ HOWNZ-feeld), named after Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, is a quantitative scale for describing radiodensity. It is frequently...
immortalised in the Hounsfieldscale, a quantitative measure of radiodensity used in evaluating CT scans. The scale is defined in Hounsfield units (symbol HU)...
Hounsfield may refer to: Hounsfield Heights/Briar Hill, Calgary, an inner suburban neighbourhood in northwest Calgary, Alberta, Canada Hounsfield, New...
machines) and to the lack of appropriate bone density determination. The Hounsfieldscale is used to measure radiodensity and, in reference to CT scans, can...
according to the Hounsfieldscale, a principle which is central to X-ray computed tomography (CT scan) applications. On the Hounsfieldscale, distilled water...
physicist Allan MacLeod Cormack and British electrical engineer Godfrey Hounsfield "for the development of computer-assisted tomography". On the basis of...
Holographic Universe, in quantum gravity and string theories Hounsfield Units, on the Hounsfieldscale, a unit of measurement used on a computed tomography machine...
atheromatous plaques, within the artery wall. On CT, >130 units on the Hounsfieldscale (some argue for 90 units) has been the radiographic density usually...
investigate omental thickening and irregularities in density using the Hounsfieldscale and other radiographic tools to determine the extent of abdominal disease...
renal angiomyolipoma. It involves the renal cortex, and has an attenuation of less than 20 HU on the Hounsfieldscale, which are typical characteristics....
stratification. CT densitometry, measuring absolute attenuation on the Hounsfieldscale, has low sensitivity and specificity and is not routinely employed...
septa, calcifications, or solid components, and has a density of 0–20 Hounsfield units (HU) (about equal to that of water). In such cases, a CT scan without...
Physiology or Medicine with Allan McLeod Cormack, gave his name to the Hounsfieldscale, and also led the team that built the EMIDEC 1100, Britain's first...
Hospital in London. Its inventor was the English engineer Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield (1919-2004), who shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Medicine with Allan McLeod...
with the computed tomography (CT) scanner. His work with Sir Godfrey Hounsfield to determine the spatial resolution of the CT scanner opened the door...
Central Research Laboratories in Hayes under the leadership of Godfrey Hounsfield, an electrical engineer at EMI. In the early 1970s, with financial support...
Hewlett-Packard Hugo Hirst Co-founder of General Electric Company Godfrey Hounsfield Inventor of the world's first computed tomography (CT) scanner, shared...
radiodense. Overall, the radiodensity of myeloma is between −30 and 120 Hounsfield units (HU). Magnetic resonance imaging is more sensitive than simple X-rays...
areas of calcification within them to create large enough regions of ~130 Hounsfield units which a CT scanner's software can recognize as distinct from the...
1972 with the invention of the CT scanner for medical imaging by Godfrey Hounsfield. The invention earned him a Nobel Prize in medicine, which he shared with...
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