Nuclear Medicine for Physicists

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Table of Contents

• 1 Introduction to Nuclear Imaging
  • 1.1 Nuclear Image Acquisition
  • 1.2 Suitability of Nuclear Medicine, Examinable Organs
  • 1.3 Radioactive Tracing, a Short History
  • 1.4 Collimators
  • 1.5 Development of PET
  • 1.6 Isotopes Used in SPECT
  • 1.7 Physical Processes Important for Radiation Detection
• 2 Detectors
  • 2.1 Scintillators
    • 2.1.1 The Process of Scintillation, Types of Scintillators
    • 2.1.2 Basic Properties of Scintillators
    • 2.1.3 SPECT Scintillators
    • 2.1.4 PET Scintillators
  • 2.2 PMT (Photomultiplier Tube)
  • 2.3 Semiconductor Photodetectors
• 3 Measurement background of position sensitive detection
  • 3.1 Measurement technical background of γ photon position sensitive and energy selective detection
  • 3.2 2D Imaging Based on the Anger Principle
  • 3.3 The centroid method and the Anger camera
• 4 Gamma Cameras and Gamma Camera Imaging
  • 4.1 Structure of Gamma Cameras
  • 4.2 Techniques for Position Determination
  • 4.3 Calibration and Correction of Images
  • 4.4 Imaging characteristics of gamma cameras
  • 4.5 Types of Tests
  • 4.6 Whole-body Studies
• 5 SPECT Imaging
  • 5.1 Fundaments of the 3-D Emission Imaging
  • 5.2 Techniques of Reconstruction
  • 5.3 Conjugate Projections
  • 5.4 Imaging Errors
  • 5.5 Pinhole SPECT
• 6 PET Imaging
  • 6.1 The principle of PET imaging
  • 6.2 Timing techniques
  • 6.3 Single rate, pile-up, dead time and random rate
  • 6.4 Effects limiting ideal imaging
  • 6.5 Calibration of PET systems
• 7 PET/CT Systems
  • 7.1 Introduction to PET-CT multi-modality imaging
  • 7.2 Isotope Production
  • 7.3 Examination
  • 7.4 Hardware
  • 7.5 Standardized Uptake Value (SUV)
  • 7.6 PET/MRI
• 8 Radiation Protection in Nuclear Medicine
  • 8.1 PET/CT - Radiation Protection
  • 8.2 SPECT - Gamma Camera - Radiation Protection
• 9 References (Nuclear Medicine)