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A Clinical Radioisotope Scanner for Cylindrical and Section Scanning; Dispositif de Scintigraphie pour l'Exploration en Spirale et dans Plusieurs Plans; Tsilindricheskij radioizotopnyj ckehhep dlya tsilindricheskogo i sektsionnogo skennirovaniya; Aparato Gammagrafico para Exploraciones Cilindricas y por Secciones

Abstract

The scanner described was built to explore potential advantages of modifying the motion of the radiation detector over the patient. In the study of a round organ, such as the liver, a cylindrical scanning motion is used to expose more of the organ to survey. Another modification is section scanning which permits the separation of images of radioactive structures according to specific planes in body depth. This mode of scanning can be of particular use when images of body structures overlap in the recording and are confusing. During scanning the patient is supported on a cantilever platform between two opposed scintillation detectors mounted at the extremities of a yoke. The yoke is powered to provide three motions of the detectors about the patient: longitudinal, transverse, and rotary. Particular attention has been paid to the precise control of detector position and speed by incorporating servo-mechanical control mechanisms. The recording system includes: (1) Non-destructive data storage on punched paper tape; (2) provision for rapid regeneration of scanning images on a cathode-ray oscilloscope-, and (3) facility for electronic operations on the image signal. Examples of the clinical applications of this instrument are described, with particular emphasis on cylindrical scanning of the liver and  More>>
Authors:
Kuhl, D. E. [1] 
  1. Department of Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States)
Publication Date:
Oct 15, 1964
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
IAEA-SM-51/48
Resource Relation:
Conference: Symposium on medical radioisotope scanning, Athens (Greece), 20-24 Apr 1964; Other Information: 9 refs., 20 figs.; Related Information: In: Medical Radioisotope Scanning. Vol. I. Proceedings of the Symposium on Medical Radioisotope Scanning| 574 p.
Subject:
62 RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE; BRAIN; CONTROL SYSTEMS; IMAGES; LIVER; MODIFICATIONS; NUCLEAR MEDICINE; PATIENTS; RADIOISOTOPE SCANNERS; RECORDING SYSTEMS; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS
OSTI ID:
22127640
Research Organizations:
International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna (Austria)
Country of Origin:
IAEA
Language:
English
Contract Number:
Grant C-4456; CA-14,020; Contract AT (30-1)-3175
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ISSN 0074-1884; TRN: XA13M3053082719
Submitting Site:
INIS
Size:
page(s) 273-288
Announcement Date:
Sep 12, 2013

Citation Formats

Kuhl, D. E. A Clinical Radioisotope Scanner for Cylindrical and Section Scanning; Dispositif de Scintigraphie pour l'Exploration en Spirale et dans Plusieurs Plans; Tsilindricheskij radioizotopnyj ckehhep dlya tsilindricheskogo i sektsionnogo skennirovaniya; Aparato Gammagrafico para Exploraciones Cilindricas y por Secciones. IAEA: N. p., 1964. Web.
Kuhl, D. E. A Clinical Radioisotope Scanner for Cylindrical and Section Scanning; Dispositif de Scintigraphie pour l'Exploration en Spirale et dans Plusieurs Plans; Tsilindricheskij radioizotopnyj ckehhep dlya tsilindricheskogo i sektsionnogo skennirovaniya; Aparato Gammagrafico para Exploraciones Cilindricas y por Secciones. IAEA.
Kuhl, D. E. 1964. "A Clinical Radioisotope Scanner for Cylindrical and Section Scanning; Dispositif de Scintigraphie pour l'Exploration en Spirale et dans Plusieurs Plans; Tsilindricheskij radioizotopnyj ckehhep dlya tsilindricheskogo i sektsionnogo skennirovaniya; Aparato Gammagrafico para Exploraciones Cilindricas y por Secciones." IAEA.
@misc{etde_22127640,
title = {A Clinical Radioisotope Scanner for Cylindrical and Section Scanning; Dispositif de Scintigraphie pour l'Exploration en Spirale et dans Plusieurs Plans; Tsilindricheskij radioizotopnyj ckehhep dlya tsilindricheskogo i sektsionnogo skennirovaniya; Aparato Gammagrafico para Exploraciones Cilindricas y por Secciones}
author = {Kuhl, D. E.}
abstractNote = {The scanner described was built to explore potential advantages of modifying the motion of the radiation detector over the patient. In the study of a round organ, such as the liver, a cylindrical scanning motion is used to expose more of the organ to survey. Another modification is section scanning which permits the separation of images of radioactive structures according to specific planes in body depth. This mode of scanning can be of particular use when images of body structures overlap in the recording and are confusing. During scanning the patient is supported on a cantilever platform between two opposed scintillation detectors mounted at the extremities of a yoke. The yoke is powered to provide three motions of the detectors about the patient: longitudinal, transverse, and rotary. Particular attention has been paid to the precise control of detector position and speed by incorporating servo-mechanical control mechanisms. The recording system includes: (1) Non-destructive data storage on punched paper tape; (2) provision for rapid regeneration of scanning images on a cathode-ray oscilloscope-, and (3) facility for electronic operations on the image signal. Examples of the clinical applications of this instrument are described, with particular emphasis on cylindrical scanning of the liver and section scanning of the brain. (author) [French] Le dispositif decrit dans le memoire a ete construit en vue d'etudier les avantages qui pourraient resulter de la modification du deplacement du detecteur de rayonnement au-dessus du patient. Dans l'etude d'un organe a peu pres rond tel que le foie, on procede a l'exploration par un mouvement en spirale afin d'examiner une plus grande portion de l'organe. On peut egalement faire une exploration par 'tranches' , qui permet de separer les images des structures radioactives dans des plans determines en profondeur. Ce mode d'exploration peut se reveler particulierement utile lorsque les images des diverses structures se superposent sur le scintigramme, qui est alors difficile a interpreter. Au cours de l'exploration, le patient est installe sur un lit cantilever entre deux detecteurs a scintillation montes aux extremites d'un.support qui se deplace de maniere a permettre le mouvement des detecteurs en trois sens: longitudinal, transversal et rotatoire. On aveille tout particulierement a assurer un controle precis de la position et de la vitesse des detecteurs par l 'incorporation de servo-mecanismes. Le systeme d'enregistrement comprend: a) un stockage permanent des donnees sur bandes de papier perfore; b) un moyen de reproduction rapide des images scintigraphiques sur un oscilloscope a rayons cathodiques; c) un dispositif electronique d'exploitation des signaux. L'auteur donne des exemples des applications cliniques de cet appareil, notamment de l'exploration en spirale du foie et de l'exploration dans plusieurs plans du cerveau. (author) [Spanish] El aparato descrito en la memoria se construyo para estudiar las ventajas que puede ofrecer el empleo de un detector de radiaciones que se desplace sobre el enfermo de manera distinta de la habitual. Al estudiar un organo aproximadamente redondo, como el higado, el aparato es animado de un movimiento cilindrico a fin de poder explorar una parte mayor del organo. Otra modificacion consiste en la exploracion por secciones, que permite separar imagenes de estructuras radiativas en planos situados a diversas profundidades del organismo. Este procedimiento tiene particular interes cuando las imagenes de las diversas estructuras corporales se superponen en el registro dando resultados dificiles de interpretar. Durante la exploracion, el paciente se encuentra sobre una camilla sujeta por uno de sus extremos y situada entre dos detectores de centelleo montados en las extremidades de una pieza en forma de yugo capaz de desplazarse'en direccion longitudinal y transversal y de describir un movimiento giratorio. Se ha prestado particular atencion a la posibilidad de regular exactamente la posicion y la velocidad del detector y, para ello, se han instalado servomecanismos de control. El sistema de registro comprende: a) almacenamiento no destructivo de datos sobre cinta de papel perforada, b) posibilidad de regenerar rapidamente las imagenes de exploracion en un osciloscopio de rayos catodicos y c) un dispositivo para analizar electronicamente las imagenes. En la memoria se describen algunos ejemplos de aplicaciones clinicas de este aparato y, en particular, la exploracion cilindrica del higado y la exploracion del cerebro por secciones. (author) [Russian] n i zm a. Jetot vid skennirovanija mozhet predstavljat' opredelennuju pol'zu, esli i zobrazh enija struktur organizma budut perekryvat'sja pri registracii i poluchat'sja neotchetlivymi. Vo vremja skennirovanija pacient nahoditsja na platforme, ustanovlennoj na kronshtejne mezhdu dvumja protivopolozhno raspolozhennymi scintilljacionnymi detektorami, smontirovannymi na krajnih koncah krestoviny. Jeta krestovina snabzhena silovym dvigatelem, chtoby obespechit' tri vida dvizhenija detektorov vokrug pacienta: prodol'noe, poperechnoe i vrashhatel'noe. Osoboe vnimanie udeleno tochnomu kontrolju za polozheniem detektora i skorost'ju, opredeljaemuju servomehanicheskimi kontrol'nymi mehanizmami. Registrirujushhaja si st ema vkljuchaet: 1) bezrazrushitel'noe hranenie dannyh na perforirovannoj bum azhnojlente; 2)obes- pechenie bystrogo vosproizvedenija izobrazhenij skennogrammy na katodno-luchevom oscilloskope i 3) ustanovku dlja jelektronnyh operacij na izobrazitel'nom signale. Opisyvajutsja primery klinicheskogo ispol'zovanija jetogo pribora, s udeleniem osobogo vnimanija cilindricheskomu skennirovaniju pecheni i sekcionnomu skennirovaniju mozga. (author)}
place = {IAEA}
year = {1964}
month = {Oct}
}