Question

Computed axial tomography or computed tomography is a medical imaging method, invented by

• A. Kohler and Milstein
• B. Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
• C. Sir Godfrey Hounsfield
• D. None of the above

Answer 1

The correct option is C Sir Godfrey Hounsfield

In 1979, Sir Godfrey Newbold Hounsfield and Allan Cormack shared the nobel prize in physiology for developing the diagnostic technique computer axial tomography. It uses a computer that takes the data from multiple X-ray images of organs within the body and turns them into pictures of high resolution. It can reveal soft-tissue and other structures in the body that cannot be seen in conventional X-rays. Thus the correct answer is option C.