A comprehensive guide to the practical aspects of nuclear medicine instruments, Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation, Second Edition prepares students to become skilled technologists. This informative reference covers nuclear medicine instruments from simple radiation detectors to complex positron emission tomography (PET) scanners, focusing on the operation of the most commonly used instruments and issues that arise in their use. Designed to enable students to perform high-quality imaging, Nuclear Medicine Instrumentation, Second Edition emphasizes quality control, explaining how instruments can fail and how to improve the images obtained. The text includes more than 400 photographs, tables and illustrations, as well as sample calculations.

Gas-filled detectors -- Scintillation detectors -- Semiconductor detectors -- Factors relating to radiation measurement -- Gamma camera -- Image digitization and display -- Collimators -- Image characteristics and performance measures in planar imaging -- Departmental quality assurance and quality control of gamma cameras -- Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) -- Image characteristics and effect of acquisition parameters in SPECT imaging -- Improving SPECT images -- Quality control and artifacts in SPECT -- Principles of positron emission tomography (PET) -- PET instrumentation -- Image characteristics, performance measures, and quantitation in PET -- Quality control and artifacts in PET -- Computed tomography and its application to nuclear medicine -- Magnetic resonance imaging and its application to nuclear medicine.