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gamma camera

A Dictionary of Nursing | 2008 | 307 words | Copyright

gamma camera n. a piece of apparatus that detects radioactivity in the form of gamma rays emitted by radioactive isotopes that have been introduced into the body as tracers. The position of the source of the radioactivity can be plotted and displayed on a TV monitor or photographic film. See scintillator.

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