• DocumentCode
    808567
  • Title

    Applications of Fluorescent Scanning in Nuclear Nedicine

  • Author

    Hoffer, Paul B. ; Beck, Robert ; Stark, Violet ; Peck, Thomas

  • Author_Institution
    Section of Nuclear Medicine of the Department of Radiology, University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics, The Pritzker School of Medicine, and the Argonne Cancer Research Hospital, Chicago, Illinois
  • Volume
    20
  • Issue
    1
  • fYear
    1973
  • Firstpage
    375
  • Lastpage
    378
  • Abstract
    Two aspects of fluorescent scanning have received insufficient attention in the past. The fluorescent scanning system is inherently tomographic and is capable of almost complete rejection of activity due to tracer outside the plane of interest. The fluorescent system is also capable of providing exact quantitative determinations of tracer content. These two unique attributes may be helpful in future medical applications of x-ray fluorescence.
  • Keywords
    Cancer; Collimators; Fluorescence; Focusing; Glands; Nuclear medicine; Object detection; Tomography; X-ray detection; X-ray detectors;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Nuclear Science, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0018-9499
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TNS.1973.4326933
  • Filename
    4326933