Basic physics of nuclear medicine

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Links, medical imaging signals and systems, and lecture notes by prince. It analyzes in depth nuclear medicine our chapter 17, but it also covers the interaction of radiation with tissue our chapter 15, fourier methods and tomography our chapters 11 and 12, detectors and xray imaging systems our chapter 16, ultrasound our. Nt is defined as activity at, while in photon beam attenuation the. Threedimensional visualization techniques are used to integrate a series of tomographic slices into a form which is often easier to interpret than the slices on their own. This book covers much of the same material as in the last half of ipmb. The handbook includes 20 chapters and covers topics relevant to nuclear medicine physics, including basic physics for nuclear medicine, radionuclide production, imaging and nonimaging detectors, quantitative nuclear medicine, internal dosimetry in clinical practice and radionuclide therapy. The term atomic number is defined in nuclear physics as the number of protons in a nucleus and is given the symbol z. Figures are from the textbook except otherwise noted. The textbook on basic physics and radiation safety in nuclear medicine by dr. This is a developing chapter of a wikibook entitled basic physics of nuclear medicine. This article will describe the physical principles behind the basic techniques of nm imaging, and will then go on to demonstrate some of the main clinical applications of nm as applied to orthopaedic practice.

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