| Hal Anger, a nuclear scientist, was the man who | | | | camera to receive the gamma rays coming from the |
| invented the gamma camera. Is a medical device, a | | | | patient is a part called a collimator. Like a colander that |
| camera, that is used to look at the internal organs and | | | | strains liquid from the solid, the nuclear medicine |
| how they are functioning at the time. He invented it | | | | collimator on the gamma camera channels all of the |
| back in the 1950's and it is still around today, nearly 70 | | | | gamma rays into the camera head that is full of |
| years later. | | | | crystals. What happens from there and how that |
| The gamma camera works by through gamma rays. | | | | becomes an image that you can see and make a |
| The patient is given a solution to drink or injected with | | | | diagnosis from is some complicated nuclear science |
| a solution that contains a low level of radiation that will | | | | stuff that most people do not understand anyways. |
| emit gamma rays. Depending on the organ that is | | | | All that really matters for most of us is that it works. In |
| being target to be looked at, a different type of | | | | particular, because since its invention, the largest |
| solution is given. The reason for this is because certain | | | | success story of the gamma camera is that of the |
| types and mixes of the solution will be absorbed by | | | | fight against breast cancer. It has been able to detect |
| different organs. | | | | tumors much sooner, making the odds of survival in |
| Once the solution is in the patient, they are then put | | | | breast cancer patients much higher. |
| under the gamma camera. The first part of the | | | | |