Nuclear medicine instrumentation
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Sudbury, Mass. :
Jones and Bartlett Publishers ,
c2010
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Gas-filled detectors
- 2. Scintillation detectors
- 3. Semiconductor detectors
- 4. Factors relating to radiation measurement
- 5. The gamma camera
- 6. Image digitization and display
- 7. Collimators
- 8. Image characteristics and performance measures in planar imaging
- 9. Departmental quality assurance and quality control of gamma cameras
- 10. Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)
- 11. Image characteristics and effect of acquisition parameters in SPECT imaging
- 12. Attenuation correction, scatter compensation, and resolution recovery
- 13. Quality control and artifacts in SPECT
- 14. Principles of positron emission tomography
- 15. PET instrumentation
- 16. Image characteristics, performance measures, and quantitation in PET
- 17. Quality control and artifacts in PET
- 18. Computed tomography and its application to nuclear medicine