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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
Basics of nuclear imaging 159
In recent years there are new SPECT cameras on the mar ket which a
re
stationary and no rotation is re quired. The imaging done by these cameras
is focused on a specific organ (heart or bra in) in pre-clinical imaging [7] or
clinical imaging [15, 28, 37, 98].
5.3.4 POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET)
The goal of PET imaging is to determine distribution of radionuclides that
emit positrons which subsequently annihilate producing 511 keV photons.
Photons are detected by a large number of detector elements that surround
the patient. These detector elements form typically a ring around the scanned
object. The diameters of PET cameras vary depending on the application and
for clinical scanners they are about 80 cm.
Positron (e
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