# Godfrey Hounsfield (@godfrey-hounsfield)

Godfrey Hounsfield was a British electrical engineer. At EMI, Hounsfield developed a clinically usable system that combined many X-ray measurements with computer reconstruction to image cross-sections.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Godfrey Hounsfield's public record._

## Topics

- [Hounsfield Units](/@godfrey-hounsfield/hounsfield-units.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Building the CT Scanner](/@godfrey-hounsfield/building-the-ct-scanner.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [First Clinical Images](/@godfrey-hounsfield/first-clinical-images.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1979/hounsfield/facts/
- blog: https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1979/speedread/
- blog: https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/people/cp37344/godfrey-newbold-hounsfield

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "godfrey-hounsfield", "question": "…"}`.