TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cherry,Simon R.
AU  - Sorenson,James A.
AU  - Phelps,Michael E.
TI  - Physics in nuclear medicine
SN  - 9781416051985 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - R895 .S58 2012
U1  - 610.1/53 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Elsevier/Saunders
KW  - Medical physics
KW  - Nuclear medicine
KW  - Health Physics
KW  - Nuclear Medicine
N1  - 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
ER  -