Nuclear medicine imaging scintillation camera

Hal s greatest contribution was to replace the rectilinear scanners with the scintillation camera (Fig. 7.5.) invented in 1957, and perfected in the 1960s and 1970s. The invention of the Anger camera led to the birth of nuclear cardiology, which accounts for more than half of all nuclear medicine imaging studies in the US today. 

The scintillation camera is the primary imaging instrument used in nuclear medicine and is often referred to as a gamma camera The scintillation camera is a position-sensitive gamma ray imager. Although the entire field of view is available for detection, it processes one event at a time. The spatial resolution is approximately 10 mm and it yields a count rate of 200 to 300 cpm//iCi in the field of view (cpm = counts per minute). The field of view covers a large portion of the body and is typically 40 X 50 cm, although other sizes are available. 

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