Comparison Of Medical Imaging Modalities: Clinical Realization And Engineering Potential Of Nuclear Imaging

Leon Kaufman; Robert S. Hattner

doi:10.1117/12.958186

26 December 1979 Comparison Of Medical Imaging Modalities: Clinical Realization And Engineering Potential Of Nuclear Imaging

Leon Kaufman, Robert S. Hattner

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Proceedings Volume 0206, Recent and Future Developments in Medical Imaging II; (1979) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.958186
Event: 23rd Annual Technical Symposium, 1979, San Diego, United States

Abstract

Nuclear imaging is a powerful diagnostic modality which obtains images from the intact body through the administration of miniscule amounts of physiologically specific radioactive agents (Table I). Typical radiation dosages do not exceed one rad to the critical organ, and the small molar concentrations of the pharmaceutical used mitigates carrier effects and poses no recognized hazards due to toxicity. With exception of imaging of the thryoid by fluorescent excitation of iodine, nuclear images reflect the very recent history of distribution of a physiologically specific agent or its selective uptake.

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Leon Kaufman and Robert S. Hattner "Comparison Of Medical Imaging Modalities: Clinical Realization And Engineering Potential Of Nuclear Imaging", Proc. SPIE 0206, Recent and Future Developments in Medical Imaging II, (26 December 1979); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.958186

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