Published 1988 | Version v1
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The scintillation detector

  • 1. Dept. of Radiology, Indiana Univ. School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN (USA)
  • 2. Univ. of Chicago, Chicago, IL (USA)

Description

This paper discusses how detector systems used in nuclear medicine serve to intercept, measure the energy of, and count the γ-ray and x-ray photons that are emitted from a volume, the boundaries of which are defined by a collimator or well. They provide information about the concentration of a radionuclide within the volume, since the rate of photon emission is proportional to this concentration

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Publishing Information

Publisher
Williams and Wilkens.
Imprint Place
Baltimore, MD (USA)
ISBN
0-938994-52-2
Imprint Title
Diagnostic nuclear medicine. Second edition
Imprint Pagination
1154 p.
Journal Page Range
p. 55-63.