Scanning device for scintigraphy of the human body
A scanner for scintigraphy of the entire body is described, comprising a frame provided with horizontally and lengthwise located guides; a carriage, movable with respect to the frame, along said guides, and provided with transversely slidable supports for one or two rods supporting the detectors; one or two rods slidable transversely on said supports, on said rods being mounted the detectors; one or more recording devices for the scintigraphic image; comprising a stationary rail parallel to the bed for the patient, and rolling means suitable to cause the sliding movement guided by the rail, of the frame with the carriage, the rods with the detectors and the recording devices, the rail being so located that most of the scanner slides between the rail and the patient bed, this too stationary, during the longitudinal scanning movement on the entire body.
- Assignee:
- Ital Elettronica S.p.A.
- Patent Number(s):
- US 4064441
- OSTI ID:
- 7208305
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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46 INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
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62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE
ANIMALS
COUNTING TECHNIQUES
DESIGN
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES
MAMMALS
MAN
PRIMATES
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNERS
RADIOISOTOPE SCANNING
RECORDING SYSTEMS
SCINTISCANNING
VERTEBRATES