Title :
The Design of a General Purpose Radioactive Isotope Scanner with Digital Readout for Medical Diagnostic Purposes
Author :
Lundy, Arvid ; Trump, Michael
Author_Institution :
Medical Physics Department Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, New York
Abstract :
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.
Keywords :
Cancer; Collimators; Detectors; Dynamic range; Isotopes; Medical diagnosis; Medical diagnostic imaging; Physics; Printing; Servomechanisms;
Journal_Title :
Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TNS.1965.4323544
