The end of the Cold War and the cancellation of the Superconducting Super Collider led to the creation of a life-saving medical device. Each year, more than 5 million Americans take a nuclear heart ...

Use of a gamma camera to image sentinel lymph nodes during cancer surgery can help the surgeon assess the extent of cancer spread, and could help reduce mortality rates. Portable gamma camera systems ...

Gamma rays, valued by astrophysicists for conveying information about phenomena in space, are also becoming valued by doctors for their ability to uncover cancer. As the most energetic form of light, ...

Researchers invented a Compton camera of 580g which visualizes gamma rays of arbitrary energies, and succeeded in achieving a high-resolution, multicolor 3-D molecular image of a live mouse ...

Hal O. Anger, 85, a nuclear medicine pioneer credited with inventing the gamma camera that captures metabolic processes within a living body, died of undisclosed causes Oct. 31 at his home in Berkeley ...

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. The IAEA has inaugurated a new gamma camera laboratory ...

In this short video, Heather Williams from the Christie Hospital explains the principles of how gamma cameras are used within oncology. Williams, a senior medical physicist for nuclear medicine ...

Are ulcerated breast cancers biologically more aggressive compared to their non-ulcerated counterparts? This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2012 Breast Cancer Symposium. This abstract does not ...

Using technology similar to that found in smartphone cameras, NASA scientists are developing upgraded sensors to reveal more details about black hole outbursts and exploding stars—all while being less ...

Gamma scintillation camera made around 1960 by Nuclear-Chicago, used at Ohio State University, and given to the Smithsonian in 1971. This was the first commercial model. The first actual instrument ...

The market for mobile gamma cameras is expected to exhibit growth, projecting a CAGR of 4.82% during the forecast period. The widespread incidences of chronic diseases, the shift in the preference ...