Nuclear Medicine Physics

Category 3: Single Photon Imaging System, and Recent Advances

• Radionuclide production and characteristics for SPECT and planar imaging.
• QC procedures, including ACR/TJC/NEMA and acceptance testing, artifacts.
• System principles, including scintillation cameras, solid state cameras, collimators, image fusion, system characteristics.
• Dynamic imaging, renograms, cardiac function, ejection fraction, tracer kinetics, lung shunt fraction.
• Image reconstruction, including scanograms, attenuation correction, filters, edge enhancement, smoothing, unsharp masking, segmentation.