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