<story><title>Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging</title><url>https://www.annalsofian.org/article.asp?issn=0972-2327;year=2016;volume=19;issue=4;spage=448;epage=450;aulast=Bhattacharyya</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>car</author><text>The fundamental invention of tomography was by by William Oldendorf who inspired Hounsfield.&lt;p&gt;He used a record turntable and a toy train to prototype his early ideas.&lt;p&gt;His egregious exclusion from the Nobel prize was deemed a political decision by the Europeans committee due to ongoing patent matters.&lt;p&gt;Edit: For anyone interested in medical tomography, check out the current cutting edge, a bedside(!) MRI using two huge rare earth magnets[2].&lt;p&gt;[0]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;William_H._Oldendorf#Role_in_development_of_neuroimaging&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;William_H._Oldendorf#Role_in_d...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[1]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;History_of_computed_tomography&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;History_of_computed_tomography&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;[2]&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hyperfine.io&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;hyperfine.io&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield, who revolutionized neuroimaging</title><url>https://www.annalsofian.org/article.asp?issn=0972-2327;year=2016;volume=19;issue=4;spage=448;epage=450;aulast=Bhattacharyya</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>redwall_hp</author><text>&amp;gt; Finally, in possibly his most ingenious invention, Hounsfield created an algorithm to reconstruct an image of the brain based on all these layers. By working backward and using one of the era’s fastest new computers, he could calculate the value for each little box of each brain layer. Eureka!&lt;p&gt;And, of course, they glossed over the most interesting part by simply saying &amp;quot;an algorithm.&amp;quot; I know that modern CT scans use Marching Cubes [1], which is what that particular algorithm was developed for, but that came later in the 80s.&lt;p&gt;[1] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Marching_cubes&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Marching_cubes&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>