Hounsfield
1. Godfrey Hounsfield, a key contributor to the creation of the CAT scanner.
2. The unit measuring the brightness of images that appear on a CAT scanner.
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- Hounsfield, Godfrey
(1919-2004) British electrical engineer whose contributions to the creation of the computerized axial tomography scanner (the CAT scan) won him a share of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979. Hounsfield shared the award with the South African-born scientist Allan M. Cormack (1924-1998) who spent much of his career in the US. […]
- House
Hospital. As in house officer, house staff, and house surgeon.
- House officer
A resident physician and surgeon of a hospital (the “house”) who is receiving further training, usually in a medical or surgical specialty, while caring for patients under the direction of an attending physician.
- House staff
The resident physicians of a hospital who care for patients under the direction of the attending staff. House in this context refers to the hospital.
- House surgeon
Literally, a surgeon in the house, the house being the hospital. The meaning of the term house surgeon varies significantly from country to country. For example, In the US, a house surgeon is a surgeon who works for a hospital and, when on duty, is available there. In the UK, a house surgeon is the […]