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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 1978
Filed:
Dec. 17, 1976
Applicant:
Inventor:
Stuart Mirell, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Assignee:
Other;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01N / ; G01T / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
2503 / ; 2503 / ; 2504 / ;
Abstract
A method and apparatus for producing tomographic or cross-sectional radiographic images of a portion of a patient's anatomy, or of another object, by means of a planar-collimated gamma-ray source, from which the radiation is substantially confined to a single plane, and a conventional scintillation camera located to detect gamma radiation scattered from the object being examined, the scintillation camera including a collimator arranged to detect scattered radiation only from a direction perpendicular to the plane being examined.