NERS/BIOE 481
Lecture 09
Nuclear Medicine Detectors

VI. Detection of Radiation Images (cont.)(Detailed Syllabus)

  1. Nuclear Medicine detectors
    1. Physical Design of the Anger camera
    2. Position estimates for individual detected events
    3. Other radioisotope camera designs
    4. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) Systems
Reading (pdf):
Assigned Sorenson,Ch 13 15 pgs The gamma camera: basic principles.
Assigned Barrett, Ch 5.4 20 pgs The gamma camera: details of operation.
Optional Kapoor 2004 20 pgs Introduction to PET-CT Imaging, Radiogr.
Optional VandenB. 2016 14 pgs Recent developments in TOF PET, EJNMMI
Optional Tarantola 2003 30 pgs PET Instrumentation and Reconstr.., JNM
Resource Clinthorne 1987 5 pgs MLE position estimation, IEEE
Resource Volkow 2011 14 pgs Brain PET response to cell phones, JAMA
Resource Cherry 2018 10 pgs Simon Cherry, Total Body PET, JNM, 2018.
Resource Anger, US Pat 7 pgs 1961 Patent for the Anger camera.
Resource Knoll, US Pat 13 pgs 1977 Patent for uniformity correction.
Resource IAEA-Pub1141 299 pgs Quality Control Atlas, NM Cameras, 2003.
Resource SiPM Intro 16 pgs Introduction to SiPM (SensL, 2017).
Lecture Material:

slides(pdf,5.8MB) , printview(pdf,1.8MB)

Homework: L09-HW08   (pdf)
    Answer : L09-HW08+ (pdf)
Links
SNM-MI Society of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging
UofA CGRI UofA Center for Gamma-Ray Imaging, H. Barrett
Cherry Lab Cherry Lab, Biomedical Engr., UC Davis BME
Crump Institute Crump Institute for Molecular Imaging, UCLA
GE Healthcare GE Healthcare, Digital CZT Detectors, Rehovot IL