Medical Device
scintillation camera
Definitions related to gamma cameras:
  • An instrument used in medicine to produce images of internal organs after the injection of a radioactive drug into the body, where the drug releases gamma rays. It is used especially in medical diagnostic scanning. (Encarta Dictionary and Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary)
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • (anger camera) The original gamma camera invented by H. O. Anger in 1957 and its subsequent generations. This original camera consisted of one large crystal in which gamma rays were converted to scintillations of light. Then, a limited number of detectors viewed these through a collimator to provide an image.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
  • A scintillation (gamma) camera is a device intended to image the distribution of radionuclides in the body by means of a photon radiation detector. This generic type of device may include signal analysis and display equipment, patient and equipment supports, radionuclide anatomical markers, component parts, and accessories.
    Standard Product Nomenclature
    U.S Food & Drug Administration, 2003
  • (scintillation camera) Electronic instruments that produce photographs or cathode-ray tube images of the gamma-ray emissions from organs containing radionuclide tracers.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
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