Nuclear medicine instrumentation
By: Jennifer Prekeges.
Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Sudbury, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780763766382
Subjects: Nuclear medicine -- Instruments; Nuclear Medicine -- instrumentation; Positron-Emission Tomography -- methods; Radioisotopes -- diagnostic use; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon -- methods
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Gas-filled detectors; title: Scintillation detectors; title: Semiconductor detectors; title: Factors relating to radiation measurement; title: The gamma camera; title: Image digitization and display; title: Collimators; title: Image characteristics and performance measures in planar imaging; title: Departmental quality assurance and quality control of gamma cameras; title: Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT); title: Image characteristics and effect of acquisition parameters in SPECT imaging; title: Attenuation correction, scatter compensation, and resolution recovery; title: Quality control and artifacts in SPECT; title: Principles of positron emission tomography; title: PET instrumentation; title: Image characteristics, performance measures, and quantitation in PET; title: Quality control and artifacts in PET; title: Computed tomography and its application to nuclear medicine.