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The Humongotron—A Scintillation-Camera Transaxial Tomograph

John W. Keyes, Jr., Nicolae Orlandea^*, William J. Heetderks, Patrick F. Leonard and W. L. Rogers

University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Correspondence: For reprints contact: John W. Keyes, Jr., Div. of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital, Ann Arbor, MI 48109.

ABSTRACT

An emission transaxial tomographic system using a scintillation camera as the detector is described. The unit allows accurate positioning of a scintillation camera's detector at any angle around a patient in order to obtain the multiple projection images needed for transaxial tomography, and it is capable of imaging any area of the body. The camera can also be used for all types of conventional imaging procedures. Image processing is performed by a small on-line computer. A convolution algorithm and a mathematical technique for approximate absorption correction are used to obtain high-resolution and high-contrast images with good quantitative accuracy. The operation of the system is described and representative phantom and patient studies are presented to illustrate the capabilities of the system.

FOOTNOTES

^* Present address: Deere & Co., Engineering Science Dept., Moline, Ill.

Present address: Dept. of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.

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