Physics in nuclear medicine /
Physics in Nuclear Medicine - by Drs. Simon R. Cherry, James A. Sorenson, and Michael E. Phelps - provides current, comprehensive guidance on the physics underlying modern nuclear medicine and imaging using radioactively labeled tracers. This revised and updated fourth edition features a new full-co...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia :
Elsevier/Saunders,
[2012]
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| Edition: | Fourth edition. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book. |
Table of Contents:
- What is nuclear medicine?
- Basic atomic and nuclear physics
- Modes of radioactive decay
- Decay of radioactivity
- Radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical production
- 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
- The gamma camera : performance characteristics
- Image quality in nuclear medicine
- Tomographic reconstruction in nuclear medicine
- Single photon emission computed tomography
- Positron emission tomography
- Hybrid imaging : SPECT/CT and PET/CT
- Digital image processing in nuclear medicine
- Tracer kinetic modeling
- Internal radiation dosimetry
- Radiation safety and health physics.