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GE Healthcare is the result of the merger between GE Medical and Amersham Health in Nov. 2004, after GE acquired Amersham Health for 9.5 billion in Oct. 2003. Jeffrey R. Immelt, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive of General Electric, said, 'Amersham's diagnostic pharmaceutical and life sciences business will add new, high growth platforms to GE Medical's diagnostic imaging, services and health care information technology businesses'. GE Healthcare, a UK company, is a unit of General Electric (NYSE: GE). GE Healthcare is a global leader in medical imaging, diagnostic imaging agents, interventional procedures, health care services, and information technology.
For more than 100 years, health care providers have relied on GE Medical Systems, now GE Healthcare, for high quality medical technology and productivity solutions.
GE Healthcare, headquartered now at the formerly seat of Amersham Healthcare in Great Britain, operates facilities around the world. Global Operations include organizations on the Americas, Europe, and Asia, including India, Japan, Korea China, Thailand and Vietnam.
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(Scintillation Camera, Scintillation Gamma Camera, Gamma Scintillation Camera or Anger Gamma Camera)
A gamma camera is an imaging device used in nuclear medicine to scan patients who have been injected, inhaled, or ingested with small amounts of radioactive materials emitting gamma rays. The gamma camera records the quantity and distribution of the radionuclide that is attracted to a specific organ or tissue of interest. The first gamma camera was developed and introduced by Hal O. Anger in 1957/58. The structure hasn't changed by today. A gamma camera consists of:
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a collimator, usually a multihole collimator;
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detector crystals, typically thallium-activated NaI scintillation crystal are used;
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photomultiplier tube array
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shielding to minimize background radiation
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position logic circuits
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and the data analysis computer
Through this design the simultaneous registration of gamma ray photons is possible, the computer further allows dynamic imaging. See also Pinhole, Elution, Center of Rotation, First Pass Scintigraphy, and Anger Hal Oscar. Further Reading: Basics:
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Gamma rays are a form of nuclear radiation that consists of photons emitted by radioactive elements from the nucleus. This high energetic light emission is also produced from subatomic particle interaction, such as electron positron annihilation. Gamma radiation, similar to x-radiation can injure and destroy tissue, especially cell nuclei. Gamma rays have in general very high frequencies, short wavelengths, are electrically neutral and penetrate matter. The interaction of gamma rays with matter depends on the nature of the absorber as well as the energy of the gamma rays; these interactions determine also the type and amount of shielding needed for radiation protection. See also Radiation Safety, Lead Equivalence, Lead Apron, Leaded Glove, Glove-Box, Radioactive Decay Law and Radiation Worker. Further Reading: News & More:
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The gantry is a ring-shaped structure, containing the x-ray tube, collimators, filters, data acquisition system (DAS), associated electronics such as gantry angulation motors, rotational components including slip ring systems and the detector array in a CT or radiation therapy system. The table control, to regulate the gantry tilt and laser (or high intensity) lights are included within, or mounted on the gantry serving as anatomical positioning guides. To scan the patient, the patient table is moved through the gantry aperture. The rotating arm on which an accelerator head is mounted is also called gantry. This gantry can rotate 360 degrees around its axis. Result Pages : |