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Hounsfield

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Houns·field (hounzfld), Godfrey Newbold 1919-2004.
British engineer and inventor. He shared a 1979 Nobel Prize for development of the CAT scan x-ray technique.
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High-resolution computed tomography (CT) detected a lesion in the left IAC with a signal of -29 to -109 Hounsfield units (figure 1A).
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