Differential radioactivity monitor for non-invasive detection of ocular melanoma

Patent · Thu Sep 23 00:00:00 EDT 1982

OSTI ID:5820142

Lambrecht, R M; Packer, S

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
• Application Number: ON: DE83018058
• OSTI ID: 5820142
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

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