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Emission Tomography : the Fundamentals of Pet and Spect.

PET and SPECT are two of today?s most important medical-imaging methods, providing images that reveal subtle information about physiological processes in humans and animals. Emission Tomography: The Fundamentals of PET and SPECT explains the physics and engineering principles of these important func...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Aarsvold, John N.
Otros Autores: Wernick, Miles N.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Burlington : Elsevier, 2004.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Front Cover; EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY: The Fundamentals of PET and SPECT; Copyright Page; Contents; Contributors; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; Chapter 1. Imaging Science Bringing the Invisible to Light; Chapter 2. Introduction to Emission Tomography; Chapter 3. Evolution of Clinical Emission Tomography; Chapter 4. Basic Physics of Radioisotope Imaging; Chapter 5. Radiopharmaceuticals for Imaging the Brain; Chapter 6. Basics of Imaging Theory and Statistics; Chapter 7. Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography; Chapter 8. Collimator Design for Nuclear Medicine.
  • Chapter 9. Annular Single-Crystal SPECT SystemsChapter 10. PET Systems; Chapter 11. PET/CT Systems; Chapter 12. Small Animal PET Systems; Chapter 13. Scintillators; Chapter 14. Photodetectors; Chapter 15. CdTe and CdZnTe Semiconductor Detectors for Nuclear Medicine Imaging; Chapter 16. Application-Specific Small Field-of-View Nuclear Emission Imagers in Medicine; Chapter 17. Intraoperative Probes and Imaging Probes; Chapter 18. Noble Gas Detectors.