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Statistical Computing in Nuclear Imaging
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Statistical Computing in Nuclear Imaging

by Arkadiusz Sitek
December 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
275 pages
9h 12m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Statistical Computing in Nuclear Imaging
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Basics of nuclear imaging
In nuclear imaging (NI) in medicine, the electromagnetic radiation is used
to obtain informatio n about various physiological functions. The radiatio n
originates inside the patients and ideally the detectors of NI cameras detect as
many as po ssible of the photons originated for m within the body. The energy
of electromag ne tic radiation used for imaging is large enoug h to penetrate the
tissues. However, if the photon energy is high (for example 2 MeV per photon)
and almos t no attenuation occurs in the body, the detection of such high-
energy radiation is difficult (the matter becomes “transparent”) and hardware
needed
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ISBN: 9781439849347