jIUn/LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Page 1 Performance of Scintillation Cameras A recent
letter by Hine and Paras (I) deserves a word of comment because it omits important data on …

The ideal properties of a scintillation camera system for nuclear medicine would be: 1) 100%
efficiency in detecting photons (X-rays or gamma-rays) enter ing its aperture, together with …

mn/PRELIMINARY NOTE Page 1 A limitation of the standard scintillation camera is its field
size. At present there are at least three gen eral approaches to increasing useable field size …

The performance characteristics of 5 scintillation cameras were compared: Searle 19, Searle
37, Ohio Nuclear, Picker 2C and Toshiba GCA 202. Inherent characteristics including spatial …

This is the final article in a four-part continuing education series on scintillation camera
technology. After studying this article the reader should be able to: 1) understand the …

METHOD A geometrical phantom3 (Fig. 1) has been constructed that is easy to re produce.
With a circular saw grooves are cut into a 10 mm thick rectangular Lucite plate 30-by 30-cm …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Systems description. The imaging systems studied were a
Pho/Gamma III scintillation camera, initially with conventional S-11 phototubes and later with …

Today nuclear medicine is returning to the operating room. New devices include a beta
detector system being developed at UCLA. At the University of Tokyo, surgeons used a …

MATERIALS AND METHODS The LFOV has 37 photomultiplier tubes with a useful field of
view of 15.25 in. using parallel-hole collimation. Several low-energy collimators, both …

This is the third in a series of four continuing education articles related to the characteristics
of the scintillation camera. Upon completion of this article, the reader should be able to: 1) …