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Show moreThe invention described herein was made in the course of, or under, a contract with the Department of Health, Education and Welfare. In order to study human or other organs the practice has developed of making such organs radioactive. The patient usually takes medication containing amounts of radioactive material. The radioactive material which is commonly used gives off gamma rays. It is usually easier and more effective to change the gamma rays to visible light radiation than to try to detect the gamma rays directly. However, the detection and conversion of gamma rays has its own difficulties. These problems include the discrimination between radiation resulting from photoelectric effect and compton effect and a determination of the location of the radiation within the source of radiation. Many types of radiation scanners have been developed in order to detect a radiation pattern within the organs. In this respect, the following articles have been published:1. Anger, H. O.: The Scintillation Camera for Radioisotope Localization. [In] Radioisotope in der Localizationsdiagnostik, ed. by G. Hoffman and K. Scheer. Stuttgard, F. K. Schottauer, 1967.2. Anger, H. O.: Tomographic Gamma-Ray Scanner with Simultaneous Readout of Several Planes. UCRL-16899 Rev., April 1967.3. Brownell, G. L.: Theory of Radioisotope Scanning. Internat. J. Appl. Radiation \A Isotopes 3: 181- 192, August 19584. Cassen, B., Gass, H., and Crandall, P.: Improved-Resolution Fast-Section Scanner. (abst.) J. Nuclear Med. p:307, June 1968.4. 5B.: Nonfocused Collimator Channel Systems in Cross-Time Correlation Three-Dimensional Scanning. (abst.) J. Nuclear Med. 10:391, June 1969.6. Davis, T. P., and Martone, R. J.: The Hybrid Radioisotope Scanner. J. Nuclear Med. 7:114- 127,7. Glass, H. I.: A Depth-Focusing Collimator for the Investigation of the Brain Cortex. [In] Medical Radiosiotope Scanning: Proc.Symp. on M. Radioisotope Scanning, Athens, April 20.sub.] 24, 1964. Vienna, JAEA, 1965, Vol. I, pp. 243- 252.8. Hisada, K. -I., Hiraki, T., Ohba, S., and Matsudaira, M.: Simultaneous Performance of Iso-sensitive Scanning and Bilaminoscanning. Radiology 88:129- 134, January 1957. 9. Kuhl, D. E., and Edwards, R. Q.: Image Separation Radioisotope Scanning. Radiology 80:653- 661, April 1963.10. Kuhl, D. E., and Edwards, R. Q.: Rapid Brain Scanner with Self-Contained Computer and CRT Display for Both Rectilinear and Transverse Section Viewing. (abst.) J. Nuclear Med. 9:332 , June 1968.11. McRae, J., and Anger, H. O.: Initial Clinical Results Obtained with the Multiplane Tomographic Gamma-Ray Scanner. (abst.) U. Nuclear Med. 10: 356- 257, June 1969.12. Miraldi, F., DiChiro, G., and Skoff, G.: Evaluation of Current Methods of Radioisotope Tomography and Design of a New Device: The Tomo-scanner. (abst.) K. J. Nuclear Med. 10: 358- 359, June 1969.13. Patton, J., Brill, A. B., Erickson, J., Cook, W. E., and Johnston, R. E.: A New Approach to Mapping Three-Dimensional Radionuclide Distributions.
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