Collimator for tomography
AssigneeMedicorp Research Laboratories Corporation
InventorsGilles Karcher, Max Amor, Roger Niddam, Jean-Pierre Villemot
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Abstract
A collimator for tomoscintigraphy comprising several juxtaposed sets of adjacent parallel tubes each positioned for each receiving transverse radiation at a different incidence angle from an individual organ under observation, thereby permitting with each step of rotation of a gamma camera, selective registration of information corresponding to as many images as there are sets in the collimator.
Claims4
Collimator for tomoscintigraphy, which is to be placed in front of the sensitive crystal of a gamma camera, of the type comprising a plurality of adjacent parallel tubes to be traversed lengthwise by the radiation from the organ under observation, characterized in that it is constituted by several juxtaposed sets of tubes, each set of tubes having the direction of its tubes selectively oriented toward the same organ under observation via orientation means for controlling the orientation, this direction corresponding to that of the tube placed substantially in the center of the set, so as to define, for each set, an incidence angle corresponding to a scintigraphic image of the organ under observation, so as to permit with each step of rotation of the gamma camera, selective registration of information corresponding to as many images as there are sets in the collimator.
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