Hounsfield

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Hounsfield is the name of

  • Sir Godfrey Hounsfield (1919–2004), English electrical engineer and Nobel Prize winner in medicine, made decisive contributions to the development of computed tomography (CT)
  • Hounsfield scale (CT number), a parameter named after Sir Godfrey Hounsfield for X-ray attenuation in computed tomography (CT)
  • Hounsfield (New York) , a city in the US state of New York