scintiscanner Med.
(ˈsɪntɪskænə(r))
[f. scintillation + scanner.]
A radiosensitive device which scans the body or part of it and creates an image of the distribution of radioactivity therein.
| 1953 Radiology LXI. 88/1 The point-by-point technique of plotting the frontal area occupied by the thyroid gland..has been simplified by the introduction of the ‘scintiscanner’ for obtaining an actual size scintigram of the gland. 1956 Jrnl. Neurosurg. XIII. 345 (caption) Scintiscanner showing patient beneath the focusing collimator. 1968 New Scientist 12 Dec. 617/1 The computer is connected ‘on-line’ to a scintiscanner instrument, which measures radiation intensities as it is moved over a patient who has ingested a weakly radioactive isotope. |
So ˈscintiscanning vbl. n., the production and use of scintiscans.
| 1954 Amer. Jrnl. Roentgenol. LXXII. 881/2 One tube stand suspends a shielded Geiger tube for uptake studies, the other tube stand supports the scintiscanning device. 1967 Nursing Times 18 Aug. 1095/2 The diagnostic uses of scintiscanning are extending rapidly with technical advances in radiobiology. 1980 Nature 17 Apr. 619/1 When bonded to the γ-emitter technetium-99..it is used clinically for scintiscanning of functioning renal cortex. |