Radionuclide angiographic collimator system
US5309911A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Oct 29, 1990 |
| Grant date | May 10, 1994 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 29, 2010 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG21K1/025
- WIPO fieldMedical technology
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A gamma ray collimator assembly for use in a cardiac inspection system. A collimator has a plurality of collimator elements with the collimator walls absorbing gamma rays. The collimator walls have a base layer of a first material covered by a layer of a second material which preferentially absorbs inelastically scattered gamma rays generated in the first material.
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