Overview of Nuclear Medical Imaging: Physics and Instrumentation

Principles and Applications of Nuclear Medical Imaging: A Survey on Recent Developments

“…In addition to continuous improvements in the detector chain, there are also radically novel approaches which dispense with the need for a semiconductor detector. A detector based on scintillator crystals coupled to hybrid photodetectors that provides full 3D reconstruction in PET imaging with high resolution and avoiding parallax errors developed during last ten years are actually available [29,30].…”

Relative Function: Nuclear Brain Imaging in United States Courts

“…The total scan time is typically around 20 minutes. Patient motion and the amount and specific activity of the radiopharmaceutical affect image quality (Zaidi & Hasegawa, 2006).…”

Recent developments and future trends in nuclear medicine instrumentation

“…It should be emphasized that such a design improves spatial resolution at the expense of deteriorating the energy resolution resulting from light losses in the pixelated crystal compared to that of a single crystal. However, cameras with pixelated scintillators also can have the scintillator segments coupled to individual photomultiplier tubes, allowing them to be operated somewhat independently of one another to increase count-rate capabilities for first-pass and other high count-rate imaging applications [3].…”

“…Both the academic community and the nuclear medicine industry maintain a continuous learning cycle and assessment of products quality to advance the technology and the operational capabilities of both SPECT and PET cameras [3]. As PET has become integrated into clinical practice, several design trends have developed; with systems now available with a spectrum of features, from those designed for "low cost" clinical applications to others designed specifically for very high-resolution research applications.…”