Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

ESA’s Integral observed space for 22 years, uncovering gamma-ray bursts, black holes, and gravitational waves.

for example a ‘gamma camera’. In this way, the radioactive isotope can be followed as it flows through a particular organ in the body. Changes in the amount of gamma emitted from different ...

Using a gamma camera - special gamma ray detector - these areas can be located. Medical instruments are too expensive to be thrown away once they have been used, so they are washed several times ...