TY - BOOK AU - Prekeges,Jennifer TI - Nuclear medicine instrumentation SN - 9780763766382 (pbk. : alk. paper) PY - 2010/// CY - Sudbury, Mass. PB - Jones and Bartlett Publishers KW - Nuclear Medicine KW - instrumentation KW - Positron-Emission Tomography KW - methods KW - Radioisotopes KW - diagnostic use KW - Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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 ER -