Prekeges, Jennifer <br/><br/>
Nuclear medicine instrumentation / 
Jennifer Prekeges. 
 - Sudbury, Mass. :  Jones and Bartlett Publishers,  c2010 
 - xxii, 313 p. :  ill ;  28 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Gas-filled detectors -- Scintillation detectors -- Semiconductor detectors -- Factors relating to radiation measurement -- The 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 -- Attenuation correction, scatter compensation, and resolution recovery -- Quality control and artifacts in SPECT -- Principles of positron emission tomography -- PET instrumentation -- Image characteristics, performance measures, and quantitation in PET -- Quality control and artifacts in PET -- Computed tomography and its application to nuclear medicine 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780763766382 (pbk. : alk. paper)  RM239.91 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nuclear Medicine--instrumentation<br/>Positron-Emission Tomography--methods<br/>Radioisotopes--diagnostic use<br/>Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon--methods
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WN440  / .P924n 2011 9