gamma camera
noun
: a camera that detects the radiation from a radioactive tracer injected into the body and is used especially in medical diagnostic scanning
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How the Heck: Seracini has now teamed up with photographer Dave Yoder and physicist Bob Smither to search for the painting using a new technique: a gamma camera, based on a device Smither developed to image tumors.
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Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2011
The scan is a nuclear imaging tool that uses a gamma camera to examine the brain’s activity, producing a 3D image for a doctor to use to see which areas of the brain are most active.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
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Valerie Ross, Discover Magazine, 9 Sep. 2011
The scan is a nuclear imaging tool that uses a gamma camera to examine the brain’s activity, producing a 3D image for a doctor to use to see which areas of the brain are most active.
—Byalexa Mikhail, Fortune, 3 Oct. 2022
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“Gamma camera.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gamma%20camera. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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