• DocumentCode
    2620571
  • Title

    Characterization of a nuclear medicine gamma camera as a gamma spectrometer for low activity sources

  • Author

    Engdahl, John C. ; Portscheller, Steven ; Bharwani, Kiran

  • Author_Institution
    College of Engineering and Technology, Bradley University, Peoria, IL, 61615, USA
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    19-25 Oct. 2008
  • Firstpage
    1240
  • Lastpage
    1245
  • Abstract
    A nuclear medicine gamma camera (Siemens HD3) has been characterized for use as a gamma spectrometer over an energy range of 30–690 keV. To our knowledge, there is no other published data on the behavior of commercial gamma cameras over this complete energy range. Low activity γ-sources (109Cd, 57Co, 133Ba, 22Na, and 137Cs) were used to calibrate the system energy response, linearity and resolution, at 88, 122, 356, 511, and 662 keV, respectively. The gamma camera characterized is a typical commercial imaging system.
  • Keywords
    Biomedical imaging; Cameras; Energy resolution; High-resolution imaging; Isotopes; Linearity; Manufacturing; Nuclear medicine; Optical imaging; Spectroscopy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Nuclear Science Symposium Conference Record, 2008. NSS '08. IEEE
  • Conference_Location
    Dresden, Germany
  • ISSN
    1095-7863
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2714-7
  • Electronic_ISBN
    1095-7863
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/NSSMIC.2008.4774630
  • Filename
    4774630
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=2620571