Main description:

This state-of-the-art handbook, the first in a series that provides medical physicists with a comprehensive overview into the field of nuclear medicine, is dedicated to instrumentation and imaging procedures in nuclear medicine. It provides a thorough treatment on the cutting-edge technologies being used within the field, in addition to touching upon the history of their use, their development, and looking ahead to future prospects.

This text will be an invaluable resource for libraries, institutions, and clinical and academic medical physicists searching for a complete account of what defines nuclear medicine.

The most comprehensive reference available providing a state-of-the-art overview of the field of nuclear medicine

Edited by a leader in the field, with contributions from a team of experienced medical physicists

Includes the latest practical research in the field, in addition to explaining fundamental theory and the field's history

Contents:

Contents

Preface...............................................................................................................................................................................ix

Contributors......................................................................................................................................................................xi

Editor Bio....................................................................................................................................................................... xiii

Chapter 1 The History of Nuclear Medicine.................................................................................................................1

Bo- Anders Joensson

Chapter 2 Basic Atomic and Nuclear Physics.............................................................................................................15

Gudrun Alm Carlsson and Michael Ljungberg

Chapter 3 Basics of Radiation Interactions in Matter.................................................................................................39

Michael Ljungberg

Chapter 4 Radionuclide Production............................................................................................................................69

Hans Lundqvist

Chapter 5 Radiometry.................................................................................................................................................89

Mats Isaksson

Chapter 6 Scintillation Detectors..............................................................................................................................107

Per Roos

Chapter 7 Semiconductor Detectors.........................................................................................................................129

Per Roos

Chapter 8 Gamma Spectrometry...............................................................................................................................145

Christopher Raaf

Chapter 9 Properties of the Digital Image................................................................................................................175

Katarina Sjoegreen Gleisner

Chapter 10 Image Processing......................................................................................................................................197

Johan Gustafsson

Chapter 11 Machine Learning....................................................................................................................................221

Karl Astroem

Chapter 12 Image File Structures in Nuclear Medicine..............................................................................................237

Charles Herbst

Chapter 13 The Scintillation Camera..........................................................................................................................251

Jonathan Gear

Chapter 14 Collimators for Gamma Ray Imaging......................................................................................................265

Roel van Holen

Chapter 15 Image Acquisition Protocols....................................................................................................................279

Jonathan Gear

Chapter 16 Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography (SPECT) and SPECT/ CT Hybrid Imaging................297

Michael Ljungberg and Kjell Erlandsson

Chapter 17 Dedicated Tomographic Single Photon Systems......................................................................................315

Jing Wu and Chi Liu

Chapter 18 PET Systems............................................................................................................................................333

Stefaan Vandenberghe

Chapter 19 Dead- time Effects in Nuclear Medicine Imaging Studies........................................................................343

Carlos Uribe and Anna Celler

Chapter 20 Principles of Iterative Reconstruction for Emission Tomography...........................................................355

Andrew J. Reader

Chapter 21 PET-CT Systems......................................................................................................................................389

Dimitris Visvikis

Chapter 22 Clinical Molecular PET/ MRI Hybrid Imaging........................................................................................397

Bernhard Sattler

Chapter 23 Quality Assurance of Nuclear Medicine Systems....................................................................................427

John Dickson

Chapter 24 Calibration and Traceability.....................................................................................................................455

Brian E. Zimmerman

Chapter 25 Activity Quantification from Planar Images............................................................................................463

Katarina Sjoegreen Gleisner

Chapter 26 Quantification in Emission Tomography..................................................................................................479

Brian F. Hutton, Kjell Erlandsson, and Kris Thielemans

Chapter 27 Multicentre Studies: Hardware and Software Requirements...................................................................499

Terez Sera, Ronald Boellaard, Andres Kaalep, and Michael Ljungberg

Chapter 28 Preclinical Molecular Imaging Systems...................................................................................................515

Magnus Dahlbom

Chapter 29 Monte Carlo Simulation of Nuclear Medicine Imaging Systems............................................................533

David Sarrut and Michael Ljungberg

Chapter 30 Beta and Alpha Particle Autoradiography................................................................................................563

Anders OErbom, Brian W. Miller and Tom Back

Chapter 31 Principles behind Computed Tomography (CT)......................................................................................589

Mikael Gunnarsson and Kristina Ydstroem

Chapter 32 Principles behind Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)..........................................................................605

Ronnie Wirestam