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Differential radioactivity monitor for non-invasive detection of ocular melanoma

Patent ·
OSTI ID:5820142
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There is described an apparatus and method for diagnosing ocular cancer that is both non-invasive and accurate which comprises two radiation detectors positioned before each of the patient's eyes which will measure the radiation level produced in each eye after the administration of a tumor-localizing radiopharmaceutical such as gallium-67.

DOE Contract Number:
AC02-76CH00016
Assignee:
ERA-08-054977; EDB-83-179593
Patent Number(s):
None
Application Number:
ON: DE83018058
OSTI ID:
5820142
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English

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Related Subjects

550601* -- Medicine-- Unsealed Radionuclides in Diagnostics
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
BETA DECAY RADIOISOTOPES
BIOLOGICAL LOCALIZATION
BODY
BODY AREAS
DAYS LIVING RADIOISOTOPES
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
DISEASES
DRUGS
ELECTRON CAPTURE RADIOISOTOPES
EYES
FACE
GALLIUM 67
GALLIUM ISOTOPES
HEAD
INTERMEDIATE MASS NUCLEI
ISOTOPES
LABELLED COMPOUNDS
MEASURING INSTRUMENTS
NEOPLASMS
NUCLEI
ODD-EVEN NUCLEI
ORGANS
RADIATION DETECTORS
RADIOISOTOPES
RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS
SENSE ORGANS