Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Life Sciences Division
LBL Life Sciences Division Biology and Medicine Department research and development files of Hal Anger, 1946-1981.
These records contain technical documents related to the research of Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL) electrical engineer Hal Anger. The records include engineering notes, correspondence, data, photographs, motion picture films, and slides. In the 1950s, Hal Anger conducted seminal studies on medical imaging, including his work (1952-1958) to develop scintillation camera, also known as the Anger Camera, which enables physicians to detect tumors and conduct other medical diagnoses by imaging gamma rays emitted by radioactive isotopes. Over time, Anger's scintillation camera evolved into modern imaging systems such as PET (Positron Emission Tomography) and SPECT (Single Photon-Emission Computed Tomography). The evolution of this technology was shaped by Anger and his colleagues and successors at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Their contributions include the multi-crystal whole body scanner (1970), gated heart single gamma tomography (1974), dynamic, gated PET (1978).
The laboratory was founded as the University of California Radiation Laboratory in 1931 by Ernest Orlando Lawrence, a University of California Berkeley physicist who won the 1939 Nobel Prize in physics for his invention of the cyclotron, a circular particle accelerator that opened the door to high-energy physics. It is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratory, operated by the University of California. The name of the laboratory has evolved since its founding: Lawrence Radiation Laboratory (1931-1958), the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (1959-1995), and currently the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (1995-present).
Hal Anger, American biophysicist (1920-2005). Electrical engineer and biophysicist, Donner Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley; inventor of the scintillation camera, known also as the gamma camera or Anger camera; developed the well counter, widely used in laboratory tests to measure radioactivity in samples; also developed a multi-plane tomographic radiation scanner using the Anger camera and a focussed radiation collimator.
Anger, Hal O. (Hal Oscar), 1920-2005.
Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Life Sciences Division
Diagnostic imaging
Scintillation camera.
Single-photon emission computed tomography
Tomography, Emission
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Anger, Hal O. (Hal Oscar), 1920-2005.
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