The father of the Anger gamma camera, Hal O. Anger, died October 31 at his home in Berkeley, CA, at the age of 85.
Anger was instrumental in the development of a new generation of gamma cameras that changed the face of nuclear medicine. In the 1950s, he developed a gamma camera that produced an image of the metabolic processes that take place within organs and cells, capturing the disease process in action, rather than depicting the anatomical changes that accompany a disease, according to the Society of Nuclear Medicine of Reston, VA.
By AuntMinnie.com staff writers
November 16, 2005
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