Hounsfield shared the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with the physicist Allan M. Cormack "for the development of computer assisted tomography".
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Giovanni Di Chiro (October 17, 1926 – August 27, 1997) was an Italian-American neuroradiologist known for his work in the use of medical imaging techniques, such as computer-assisted tomography, to study the central nervous system.
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Bharatha A, Yeung R, Durant D, Fox AJ, Aviv RI, Howard P, Thompson AL, Bartlett ES, Symons SP. "Comparison of computed tomography angiography with digital subtraction angiography in the assessment of clipped intracranial aneurysms". Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography. 2010 May–June; 34(3): 440–45.
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Lewin, Jonathan S.; Friedman, Lee; Wu, Dee; Miller, David A.; Thompson, Lee A.; Klein, Susan K.; Wise, Alexandria L.; Hedera, Peter; Buckley, Peter; Meltzer, Herbert; Friedland, Robert P.; Duerk, Jeffrey L. Cortical Localization of Human Sustained Attention: Detection with Functional MR Using a Visual Vigilance Paradigm. Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography.
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In October 1957, he began working at the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Blindness as a visiting scientist, and in January 1958, he established what became known as its Neuroimaging Branch. He served as head of this branch from its founding until his death in 1997. He served as the founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, and he was also a member of the editorial boards of nine other peer-reviewed journals.
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The Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, abbreviated JCAT, is a bimonthly peer-reviewed medical journal covering medical imaging, with a particular focus on CT scans and magnetic resonance imaging. It was established in 1977 and is published by Wolters Kluwer Health. The editor-in-chief is Allen D. Elster (Wake Forest University School of Medicine). According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2018 impact factor of 1.301, ranking it 102nd out of 129 journals in the category "Radiology, Nuclear Medicine, and Medical Imaging".
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A CT scan or computed tomography scan (formerly known as a computed axial tomography or CAT scan) is a medical imaging technique that uses computer- processed combinations of multiple X-ray measurements taken from different angles to produce tomographic (cross-sectional) images (virtual "slices") of a body, allowing the user to see inside the body without cutting. The personnel that perform CT scans are called radiographers or radiologic technologists. The 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded jointly to South African American physicist Allan M. Cormack and British electrical engineer Godfrey N. Hounsfield "for the development of computer assisted tomography." Initially, the images generated in CT scans were in the transverse (axial) anatomical plane, perpendicular to the long axis of the body.
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Imagining the Elephant: A Biography of Allan MacLeod Cormack is a 2008 biography of physicist and Nobel laureate Allan MacLeod Cormack written by biomedical engineer and author Christopher Kit Vaughan and published by Imperial College Press. The book won the University of Cape Town Book Award in 2010, an honour shared with Nobel laureate J.M. Coetzee who won the award in 1984 for Waiting for the Barbarians. Cormack shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1979 with Godfrey Hounsfield “for the development of computer assisted tomography.” The book's title is inspired by the parable of six blind men and an elephant, in which the men, by approaching the animal from different angles, imagine it to be an elephant.
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