Nuclear medicine instrumentation

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access:	R2 Digital Library Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author:	Prekeges, Jennifer
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Burlington, Mass. : Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2013
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	Nuclear medicine > Equipment and supplies. Tomography, Emission. Nuclear Medicine > instrumentation. Positron-Emission Tomography > methods. Radioisotopes. Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon > methods.

Table of Contents:

Gas-filled detectors
Scintillation detectors
Semiconductor detectors
Factors relating to radiation measurement
Gamma camera
Image digitization and display
Collimators
Image characteristics and performance measures in planar imaging
Departmental quality assurance and quality control of gamma cameras
Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
Image characteristics and effect of acquisition parameters in SPECT imaging
Improving SPECT images
Quality control and artifacts in SPECT
Principles of positron emission tomography (PET)
PET instrumentation
Image characteristics, performance measures, and quantitation in PET
Quality control and artifacts in PET
Computed tomography and its application to nuclear medicine
Magnetic resonance imaging and its application to nuclear medicine.