Physics in nuclear medicine / Simon R. Cherry, PHD Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Director, Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging University of California-Davis Davis, California; James A. Sorenson, Michael E. Phelps.
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TextPublication details: Philadelphia : Elsevier/Saunders, c2012.Edition: Fourth editionDescription: xvii, 523 pages : illustrations (some col.) ; 27 cmISBN: - 9781416051985 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 1416051988 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 610.1/53 23
- R895 CHE 2012
- WN 110
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
What is nuclear medicine -- Basic atomic and nuclear physics -- Modes of radioactive decay -- Decay of radioactivity -- Isotope production & tracer synthesis -- Interaction of radiation with matter -- Radiation detectors -- Electronic instrumentation for radiation detection systems -- Nuclear counting statistics -- Pulse height spectrometry -- Problems in radiation detection and measurement -- Counting systems -- The gamma camera : basic principles -- Gamma camera performance characteristics -- Image quality in nuclear medicine -- Tomographic reconstruction in nuclear medicine -- Single photon emission computed tomography -- Positron emission tomography -- Multimodality imaging : SPECT/CT and PET/CT -- Data acquisition and digital image processing in nuclear medicine -- Tracer kinetic modeling -- Internal radiation dosimetry -- Radiation safety and health physics.
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