Nuclear medicine instrumentation
By: Jennifer Prekeges
Edition: 2nd ed.
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Burlington, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 371
ISBN-13: 9781449645373
Subjects: Instrumentation; Nuclear Medicine; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; Methods; Radioisotopes; Diagnostic use; Positron-Emission Tomography
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: 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: Improving SPECT images; title: Quality control and artifacts in SPECT; title: Principles of positron emission tomography (PET); 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; title: Magnetic resonance imaging and its application to nuclear medicine.