The Design of a General Purpose Radioactive Isotope Scanner with Digital Readout for Medical Diagnostic Purposes

The design of a general purpose medical scanner utilizing a digital data recording system is described. The need for such apparatus is briefly discussed and the organization of the data recording portion is described in detail.

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Published inIEEE transactions on nuclear science Vol. 12; no. 1; pp. 415 - 420
Main Authors Lundy, Arvid, Trump, Michael
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.02.1965
Subjects
Cancer
Collimators
Detectors
Dynamic range
Isotopes
Medical diagnosis
Medical diagnostic imaging
Physics
Printing
Servomechanisms
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Summary:The design of a general purpose medical scanner utilizing a digital data recording system is described. The need for such apparatus is briefly discussed and the organization of the data recording portion is described in detail.
ISSN:0018-9499
1558-1578
DOI:10.1109/TNS.1965.4323544