CA1025564A - Whole body line scanner - Google Patents

Whole body line scanner

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Publication number
CA1025564A
CA1025564A CA225,971A CA225971A CA1025564A CA 1025564 A CA1025564 A CA 1025564A CA 225971 A CA225971 A CA 225971A CA 1025564 A CA1025564 A CA 1025564A
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Prior art keywords
whole body
line scanner
body line
scanner
whole
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CA225,971A
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English (en)
French (fr)
Inventor
Walter H. Berninger
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General Electric Co
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General Electric Co
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    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01T—MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
    • G01T1/00—Measuring X-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation, or cosmic radiation
    • G01T1/29—Measurement performed on radiation beams, e.g. position or section of the beam; Measurement of spatial distribution of radiation
    • G01T1/2914—Measurement of spatial distribution of radiation
    • G01T1/2978—Hybrid imaging systems, e.g. using a position sensitive detector (camera) to determine the distribution in one direction and using mechanical movement of the detector or the subject in the other direction or using a camera to determine the distribution in two dimensions and using movement of the camera or the subject to increase the field of view
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A61—MEDICAL OR VETERINARY SCIENCE; HYGIENE
    • A61B—DIAGNOSIS; SURGERY; IDENTIFICATION
    • A61B6/00—Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis; Apparatus or devices for radiation diagnosis combined with radiation therapy equipment
    • A61B6/42—Arrangements for detecting radiation specially adapted for radiation diagnosis
    • A61B6/4208—Arrangements for detecting radiation specially adapted for radiation diagnosis characterised by using a particular type of detector
    • A61B6/4258—Arrangements for detecting radiation specially adapted for radiation diagnosis characterised by using a particular type of detector for detecting non x-ray radiation, e.g. gamma radiation
    • G—PHYSICS
    • G01—MEASURING; TESTING
    • G01T—MEASUREMENT OF NUCLEAR OR X-RADIATION
    • G01T1/00—Measuring X-radiation, gamma radiation, corpuscular radiation, or cosmic radiation
    • G01T1/16—Measuring radiation intensity
    • G01T1/161—Applications in the field of nuclear medicine, e.g. in vivo counting
    • G01T1/164—Scintigraphy
    • G01T1/1641—Static instruments for imaging the distribution of radioactivity in one or two dimensions using one or several scintillating elements; Radio-isotope cameras
    • G01T1/1642—Static instruments for imaging the distribution of radioactivity in one or two dimensions using one or several scintillating elements; Radio-isotope cameras using a scintillation crystal and position sensing photodetector arrays, e.g. ANGER cameras

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  • Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Life Sciences & Earth Sciences (AREA)
  • Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Medical Informatics (AREA)
  • High Energy & Nuclear Physics (AREA)
  • Molecular Biology (AREA)
  • Engineering & Computer Science (AREA)
  • Spectroscopy & Molecular Physics (AREA)
  • Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy & Molecular Imaging (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
  • General Physics & Mathematics (AREA)
  • Biomedical Technology (AREA)
  • General Health & Medical Sciences (AREA)
  • Radiology & Medical Imaging (AREA)
  • Surgery (AREA)
  • Animal Behavior & Ethology (AREA)
  • Heart & Thoracic Surgery (AREA)
  • Public Health (AREA)
  • Veterinary Medicine (AREA)
  • Pathology (AREA)
  • Biophysics (AREA)
  • Nuclear Medicine (AREA)
  • Measurement Of Radiation (AREA)
CA225,971A 1974-05-15 1975-04-28 Whole body line scanner Expired CA1025564A (en)

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US470047A US3919557A (en) 1974-05-15 1974-05-15 Whole body line scanner

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CA1025564A true CA1025564A (en) 1978-01-31

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US (1) US3919557A (sv)
JP (1) JPS5110985A (sv)
CA (1) CA1025564A (sv)
DE (1) DE2521098A1 (sv)
FR (1) FR2271583B1 (sv)
GB (1) GB1513793A (sv)
IT (1) IT1038147B (sv)
NL (1) NL7505682A (sv)
SE (1) SE7505583L (sv)

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US4432059A (en) * 1980-09-03 1984-02-14 Elscint Ltd. Scanning gamma camera
US4870282A (en) * 1985-08-27 1989-09-26 Xenos Medical Systems, Inc. High speed multiwire photon camera
US4999501A (en) * 1985-08-27 1991-03-12 Baylor College Of Medicine High speed multiwire photon camera
US4825454A (en) * 1987-12-28 1989-04-25 American Science And Engineering, Inc. Tomographic imaging with concentric conical collimator
US5148029A (en) * 1991-09-23 1992-09-15 Siemens Gammasonics, Inc. Improved seal scintillation camera module and method of making it
US7847260B2 (en) 2005-02-04 2010-12-07 Dan Inbar Nuclear threat detection
US7820977B2 (en) 2005-02-04 2010-10-26 Steve Beer Methods and apparatus for improved gamma spectra generation
US8173970B2 (en) 2005-02-04 2012-05-08 Dan Inbar Detection of nuclear materials
US7321123B2 (en) 2005-12-20 2008-01-22 Schlumberger Technology Corporation Method and apparatus for radiation detection in a high temperature environment
WO2011011583A1 (en) * 2009-07-24 2011-01-27 Nucsafe, Inc. Spatial sequenced backscatter portal
CN104482856A (zh) * 2014-12-17 2015-04-01 顾莹 一种医用诊断仪器上耗材的定位方法和系统

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US3769509A (en) * 1969-06-16 1973-10-30 Picker Corp Scintillation camera
US3784819A (en) * 1971-03-05 1974-01-08 Picker Corp Scintillation camera with light diffusion system
US3812361A (en) * 1971-11-03 1974-05-21 Siemens Ag Process and apparatus for visualizing gamma ray images
US3835325A (en) * 1972-08-18 1974-09-10 Brown Eng Co Inc Radiation detectors using multiple scintillation crystal pieces

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FR2271583B1 (sv) 1979-04-06
FR2271583A1 (sv) 1975-12-12
US3919557A (en) 1975-11-11
SE7505583L (sv) 1976-01-09
JPS5110985A (sv) 1976-01-28
NL7505682A (nl) 1975-11-18
IT1038147B (it) 1979-11-20
DE2521098A1 (de) 1975-11-27
GB1513793A (en) 1978-06-07

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