Scintillation camera
AssigneeKabushiki Kaisha Toshiba
InventorsTadakazu Kurakake, Mikio Igarashi
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Abstract
A scintillation camera includes a plurality of detectors mounted on the camera and arranged to provide an opening for allowing the insertion of an object for examination such as a human being and for radiographing a tomographic image, a plurality of collimators each of which is attached to the front of the corresponding detectors for collimating X-rays radiating from the object for examination, and an exchanger for the collimators, the exchanger including a carrier and a holding device for holding the collimators in a swingable manner in any direction within a certain range by use of a mechanism such as a spherical bearing.
Claims7
A scintillation camera, which comprises:
- a plurality of detectors mounted on the camera and arranged so as to provide an opening for allowing an object for examination such as a human being to be inserted into the opening and for radiographing a tomographic image;
- a plurality of collimators each attached to the front of the corresponding detectors for collimating X-rays radiating from the object for the examination;
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- an exchanger including a carrier and a holding device comprising a spherical bearing for holding said collimators in a swingable manner in any direction within a specified range.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.