IL121463A - Automatic patient alignment during nuclear imaging body contour tomography scans - Google Patents

Automatic patient alignment during nuclear imaging body contour tomography scans

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IL121463A
IL121463A IL12146397A IL12146397A IL121463A IL 121463 A IL121463 A IL 121463A IL 12146397 A IL12146397 A IL 12146397A IL 12146397 A IL12146397 A IL 12146397A IL 121463 A IL121463 A IL 121463A
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detector
patient
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accordance
circular orbit
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Gen Electric
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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
    • G01T1/16—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
    • G01T1/1648—Ancillary equipment for scintillation cameras, e.g. reference markers, devices for removing motion artifacts, calibration devices

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  • Nuclear Medicine, Radiotherapy & Molecular Imaging (AREA)
  • Optics & Photonics (AREA)
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IL12146397A 1996-08-13 1997-08-04 Automatic patient alignment during nuclear imaging body contour tomography scans IL121463A (en)

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US08/689,664 US5777332A (en) 1996-08-13 1996-08-13 Automatic patient alignment during nuclear imaging body contour tomography scans

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IL121463A true IL121463A (en) 2001-08-08

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