Flexible nuclear medicine camera and method of using
Abstract
A nuclear medicine camera and method of use photographically record radioactive decay particles emitted from a source, for example a small, previously undetectable breast cancer, inside a patient. The camera includes a flexible frame containing a window, a photographic film, and a scintillation screen, with or without a gamma-ray collimator. The frame flexes for following the contour of the examination site on the patient, with the window being disposed in substantially abutting contact with the skin of the patient for reducing the distance between the film and the radiation source inside the patient. The frame is removably affixed to the patient at the examination site for allowing the patient mobility to wear the frame for a predetermined exposure time period. The exposure time may be several days for obtaining early qualitative detection of small malignant neoplasms. 11 figs.
- Inventors:
- Issue Date:
- Research Org.:
- Associated Universities Inc
- OSTI Identifier:
- 415744
- Patent Number(s):
- 5583343
- Application Number:
- PAN: 8-506,816; TRN: 97:001292
- Assignee:
- Associated Universities, Inc., Washington, DC (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-76CH00016
- Resource Type:
- Patent
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: 10 Dec 1996
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 55 BIOLOGY AND MEDICINE, BASIC STUDIES; GAMMA CAMERAS; DESIGN; NEOPLASMS; DIAGNOSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY
Citation Formats
Dilmanian, F A, Packer, S, and Slatkin, D N. Flexible nuclear medicine camera and method of using. United States: N. p., 1996.
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Dilmanian, F A, Packer, S, & Slatkin, D N. Flexible nuclear medicine camera and method of using. United States.
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abstractNote = {A nuclear medicine camera and method of use photographically record radioactive decay particles emitted from a source, for example a small, previously undetectable breast cancer, inside a patient. The camera includes a flexible frame containing a window, a photographic film, and a scintillation screen, with or without a gamma-ray collimator. The frame flexes for following the contour of the examination site on the patient, with the window being disposed in substantially abutting contact with the skin of the patient for reducing the distance between the film and the radiation source inside the patient. The frame is removably affixed to the patient at the examination site for allowing the patient mobility to wear the frame for a predetermined exposure time period. The exposure time may be several days for obtaining early qualitative detection of small malignant neoplasms. 11 figs.},
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