Published September 26, 1989 | Version v1
Patent

Radiation detector

Description

This patent describes an improvement in a medical diagnostic system for imaging penetrative radiation having a source means for propagating penetrative radiation along a path. The improvement comprising: a detector assembly spaced from the source means and located in the radiation path, and means responsive to the analog output for producing representation of contribution to images produced in response to penetrative radiation detected by the first and second scintillator components of the detector assembly

Availability note (English)

Patent and Trademark Office, Box 9, Washington, DC 20232.

Additional details

Publishing Information

Imprint Pagination
vp.
IPC:
Int. Cl. G01N 23/00.
IPC
Int. Cl. G01N 23/00.
Patent number
US patent document 4,870,667/A/

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
United States
INIS RN
21040560
Subject category
S46: INSTRUMENTATION RELATED TO NUCLEAR SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY; S62: RADIOLOGY AND NUCLEAR MEDICINE;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Non-conventional Literature
Descriptors DEI
BIOMEDICAL RADIOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; LIGHT PIPES; SCINTILLATION COUNTERS; SPECIFICATIONS
Descriptors DEC
DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES; MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; MEDICINE; RADIATION DETECTORS