Fabrication of a phantom and its application for checking gamma camera performance

The primary aim of the present work is to fabricate a total performance phantom, which could be used for checking the performance characteristics of gamma camera. The phantom was locally fabricated at machine shop of Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) and used for checking the performance characteristics of gamma camera LF-61 of Centre for Nuclear Medicine and Ultrasound, Dhaka. With 10 mCi of Tc-99m, imaging of the phantom acquired with a reasonable counts. The image was inspected physically for evaluation of the camera performances. The visual inspection of the phantom image revealed that the performance characteristics like: spatial resolution, linearity, uniformity and lesion detection capability of the gamma camera could clearly be evaluated with reasonable acceptance level. This phantom is expected to be useful for checking performance characteristics of SPECT system as well. (author)