Sentences with phrase «gamma camera»

Scrap materials can even move on to a life outside of research: Calorimeter crystals can be reprocessed for use in airport baggage scanners or medical gamma cameras.

MBI uses small, semiconductor - based gamma cameras to image the breast following injection of a radiotracer that tumors absorb avidly.

«This research covers the first patient results obtained with the hybrid optical - gamma camera developed in the UK at the Universities of Leicester and Nottingham,» said Alan Perkins, PhD, Radiological Sciences, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom.

SNMMI Procedure Standard for Breast Scintigraphy with Breast - Specific Gamma Cameras 1.0 — EANM Endorsement

Directed the daily operation of the laboratory including the radiopharmacy equipment and quality control of the SPECT gamma camera

Nuclear medicine includes equipment and techniques such as positron emission tomography (PET), gamma cameras and single - photon emission computed tomography (SPECT).

In the latter case the patient is injected with a small amount of radioactive material such as 600 MBq of technetium - 99m - MDP and then scanned with a Gamma camera, a device sensitive to the radiation emitted by the injected material.

The scan is performed by using a gamma camera which detects radiation coming from the patient.

The scintigraphy aspect of the scanner is composed of a gamma camera that detects tiny radioactive signals emitted from the body after injection of a radionuclide, which interacts with specific physiological functions of the body, so that nuclear medicine physicians and their colleagues can extrapolate information from the radionuclide's activity.

Results of the study showed that the optical - gamma camera was highly effective for imaging lymphatic and thyroid tissue, as well as drainage from the tear ducts, or lacrimal glands.

«You can image that accumulation external to the breast by using a gamma camera,» said Weisenberger.

The scintigraphy aspect of the scanner is comprised of a gamma camera that detects tiny radioactive signals emitted from the body after injection of a radionuclide, which interacts with specific physiological functions of the body, so that nuclear medicine physicians and their colleagues can extrapolate information from the radionuclide's activity.

Nuclear medicine scans involve injecting a short - acting radioactive agent into the patient, and images of the radiation emitted from the patient are recorded using a gamma camera.

Twenty minutes later, the patients are laid on their abdomen (ventral view) or side (lateral view) while the gamma camera acquires the thyroid image.

The technetium is selectively taken up by abnormal thyroid tissue, and this can be detected using a special camera (a «gamma camera»).

The section currently has three small animal DR rooms, large animal DR room, a 64 slice CT scanner, a digital fluoroscope, 1 ultrasound machine, a gamma camera for nuclear imaging and a 1.5 T MRI scanner.

Images of the thyroid gland are then acquired using a gamma camera to provide information on nodule size, the presence of single or multiple nodules, and the location of the abnormal thyroid tissue.

Maintained each department including the hot lab, tracking and ordering supplies as well as radiopharmaceuticals, gamma cameras, processing stations