Physics in nuclear medicine /
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| Format: | Electronic |
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Philadelphia :
Saunders/Elsevier,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 4th ed. |
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| Online Access: | View fulltext via EzAccess |
Table of Contents:
- 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.