Nuclear medicine instrumentation - Prekeges, Jennifer (Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010)
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
Includes bibliographical references and index
Keywords: Nuclear Medicine -- instrumentation; Positron-Emission Tomography -- methods; Radioisotopes -- diagnostic use; Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon -- methods