[PDF][PDF] The art of bone scintigraphy—technical aspects

MK O'Connor, ML Brown, JC Hung… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1991 - Soc Nuclear Med
@ â€,.@ provements in camera design and performance that have resulted in the
availability today of dedicated whole-body imaging systems and dedicated multihead …

Absolute quantitation of SPECT studies

M Ljungberg - Seminars in Nuclear Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Methods for absolute quantitation of SPECT images provide an estimate of the activity
uptakes in various organs and tissues in units of (M) Bq or (m) Ci. However, because …

Single-photon emission computed tomography in the year 2001: instrumentation and quality control

MW Groch, WD Erwin - Journal of nuclear medicine technology, 2001 - Soc Nuclear Med
Objective: SPECT instrumentation is more complex than that used for whole-body and
planar imaging, and requires careful quality control to ensure optimum performance …

[PDF][PDF] Modelling of energy-dependent spectral resolution for SPECT Monte Carlo simulations using SIMIND

M Morphis, JA van Staden, H du Raan, M Ljungberg - Heliyon, 2021 - cell.com
Abstract Purpose Monte Carlo (MC) modelling techniques have been used extensively in
Nuclear Medicine (NM). The theoretical energy resolution relationship (∝ 1/E), does not …

A comparison of deconvolution and windowed subtraction techniques for scatter compensation in SPECT

JC Yanch, MA Flower, S Webb - IEEE transactions on Medical …, 1988 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Three procedures for the removal of Compton-scattered data in SPECT by constrained
deconvolution are presented. The first is a deconvolution of a 2-D measured PSRF …

Technical aspects of bone scintigraphy

ML Brown, MK O'Connor, JC Hung… - Radiologic clinics of North …, 1993 - Elsevier
Optimal bone scintigraphy is obtained by using a current generation gamma camera with a
high-resolution collimator, minimizing the patient-to-collimator distance, using scatter …

Quality control for SPECT imaging

KJ Nichols, JR Galt - … SPECT imaging. 2nd ed. Philadelphia, PA …, 2001 - books.google.com
The foremost reason to perform quality control (QC) testing of medical imaging equipment is
to assure the provision of the best possible diagnostic service to the patient population. But …

Elements of gamma camera and SPECT systems

MM Khalil - Basic sciences of nuclear medicine, 2011 - Springer
Nuclear medicine provides noninvasive imaging tools to detect a variety of human diseases.
The two major components of these imaging procedures are radiopharmaceuticals and an …

Determining spatial resolution of gamma cameras using MATLAB

P Velo, A Zakaria - Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Sciences, 2017 - Elsevier
It is important to monitor the spatial resolution of a gamma camera on a weekly basis to
acquire medical images with accurate quantitative information. A simple and fast computer …

Rapid objective measurement of gamma camera resolution using statistical moments

TA Hander, JL Lancaster, DT Kopp, JC Lasher… - Medical …, 1997 - Wiley Online Library
An easy and rapid method for the measurement of the intrinsic spatial resolution of a gamma
camera was developed. The measurement is based on the first and second statistical …