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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 05, 1994
Filed:
Aug. 07, 1992
Farhad Daghighian, New York, NY (US);
Saul Miodownik, West Hempstead, NY (US);
Peter Shenderov, Brooklyn, NY (US);
Behzad Eshaghian, New York, NY (US);
Memorial Hospital For Cancer And Allied Diseases, New York, NY (US);
Abstract
An imaging apparatus with a flexible light guide which a surgeon can easily manipulate within the patient to control the field of view. Specifically, a scintillator receives radiation rays and converts these radiation rays into light signals at a position inside the body. A flexible bundle of optical fibers optically connected to the scintillator, channels the light signals from the scintillator to a position sensitive light signal detector located outside the body. The position sensitive light signal detector creates a digital signal to relay the position information about the detected event to a computer which accumulates these digital signals, converts these digital signals into images and displays the images.