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British Journal of Radiology (2008) 81, 361
© 2008 British Institute of Radiology
doi: 10.1259/bjr/32714430
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Editorial

The Hounsfield Review Series

R M HARRISON, PhD1 and D W PILLING2

1 Regional Medical Physics Department, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE, 2 Royal Liverpool Children's Hospital, Alder Hey, Eaton Road, Liverpool L12 2AP, UK

Correspondence: Roger Harrison, PhD, Regional Medical Physics Department, Newcastle General Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne NE4 6BE UK. E-mail: roger.harrison{at}nuth.nhs.uk

Starting in this issue, the Editors are delighted to announce a new series of commissioned review papers for the British Journal of Radiology (BJR). We intend to identify some of the most pertinent and topical subjects in the wide spectrum of radiological activity, and commission eminent workers in the field to review their subjects. We are delighted to name this series the "Hounsfield Review Series" in honour of Sir Godfrey Hounsfield, whose invention of the CT scanner over 30 years ago, and the first publication of this work in the BJR, revolutionized radiology. We are particularly grateful to his family for permission to associate his name with both this review series and the journal.

The series starts with a review of cancer risks in diagnostic radiology by Professor Eric Hall and Professor David Brenner of Columbia University, New York. Both are eminent authorities in this field and it is highly appropriate that a substantial component of their review deals with the dose implications of the burgeoning use of CT scanning.

This theme will re-appear this year when we comment on the recent recommendations of the Committee on Medical Aspects of Radiation in the Environment (COMARE) on the impact of personally initiated X-ray CT scanning for the health assessment of asymptomatic individuals.

The parallel development of MRI will be the subject of our second Hounsfield Review, to be published later this year, when Professor Andrew Blamire of Newcastle University will address "The Technology of Magnetic Resonance Imaging — the next 10 years?"

Accepted for publication February 28, 2008.





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