” During the late 1960s and the early 1970s, John Mallard’s remarkable research group at the University of Aberdeen introduced their version of an emission tomograph (figure 2) that used discrete scintillation detectors, the Aberdeen Section Scanner (ASS) (Bowley et al 1973). Also, during this period, Patten, Brill and their colleagues developed a novel scanner (figure 3) that used a scanning array of eight focusing detectors to obtain sectional images (Patton et al 1969). Their investigations influenced the multiple detector tomograph that was developed by
Stoddart and Stoddart (1979).”
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