The Nobel Prize is a great honor. Who won the prize? Why did they get it?

The Nobel Prize includes many aspects. Today, the focus is on some scientists who have won the Nobel Prize in the medical field.

Medical imaging is an important diagnostic tool in modern medicine. At present, there are 17 Nobel Prize winners whose work is directly or indirectly related to medical imaging. Medical imaging is not only an information-intensive field in the medical field, but also a concentrated field for Nobel Prize winners.

Medical images can be divided into many categories. This paper mainly introduces several Nobel Prize winners from X-ray imaging.

There are three Nobel Prize winners in the field of X-ray imaging.

Roentgen, the first physicist in Germany, discovered X-rays on1October 8 1895 165438, paving the way for the invention of medical imaging technology. This discovery not only had a great impact on medical diagnosis, but also directly affected many important scientific discoveries in the 20th century.

To commemorate Roentgen's achievements, X-rays are called Roentgen rays in many countries, and the key11is also named after him. Roentgen was modest and prudent all his life, never won glory for himself and declined the title of nobility.

Another British engineer, Huntsfield, and a South African-born physicist, Cormac.

1979 nobel prize in physiology or medicine: computed tomography. In the early 1970s, after studying the X-ray imaging of soft tissues or tissue layers with different densities, Cormac designed and developed a new diagnostic technique called Computed Axial Tomography (CT).

Since the clinical application of 1973, the diagnostic ability of brain and other tissue diseases has been greatly improved. Cormac and Hausfield both won the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine.

Huntsfield outlined the concept of computed tomography with X-ray images, which is the birth of CT scanner. 1972, the use of CT to obtain images of patients shocked the medical community. In CT technology, the CT value unit (hereinafter referred to as HU) representing image brightness is named after him. Huntsfield likes to walk in the mountains and live a simple life. He has never been married.

Without knowing each other's work, the two sides applied computers to medical imaging to better process and distinguish the images of human internal structures, which greatly improved the accuracy of disease diagnosis and became the first revolution of medical diagnosis in the 20th century.