• DocumentCode
    773964
  • Title

    The Design of a General Purpose Radioactive Isotope Scanner with Digital Readout for Medical Diagnostic Purposes

  • Author

    Lundy, Arvid ; Trump, Michael

  • Author_Institution
    Medical Physics Department Memorial Hospital for Cancer and Allied Diseases New York, New York
  • Volume
    12
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1965
  • Firstpage
    415
  • Lastpage
    420
  • Abstract
    The design of a general purpose medical scanner utilizing a digital data recording system is described. The need for such apparatus is briefly discussed and the organization of the data recording portion is described in detail.
  • Keywords
    Cancer; Collimators; Detectors; Dynamic range; Isotopes; Medical diagnosis; Medical diagnostic imaging; Physics; Printing; Servomechanisms;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1965.4323544
  • Filename
    4323544