tailieunhanh - Ionizing Radiation Detectors for Medical Imaging

The idea of this book originates from a series of lectures on “Detectors Application in Medicine and Biology” that I was asked to give as part of the Academic Training Program at CERN in 1995. In preparing the series of lectures, I realized that I would be talking about detector properties and the medical applications of these detectors to the scientists and engineers who were their inventors. Initially, this realization scared me but, soon after the lectures were delivered, it convinced me about the necessity of writing a book dedicated to detectors for medical imaging, where the properties of the detectors were to be discussed specifically in relation to. | Cover page figure Coronal MR T2-weighted image of a head. The skull abnormality on the left side is isointense with subcutaneous fat. The diagnosis of a benign fatty tumor lipoma was confirmed at a subsequent CT study Courtesy of the Department of Radiology University of Pisa 2004 . Inset to cover page figure on the back Cerebral perfusion in SPECT with 99TC-ECD in a patient with Dementia LEFT . The temporal-occipital bilateral hypoperfusion has been confirmed by an MRI exam Courtesy of the Nuclear Medicine Department University of Pisa 2004 Ionizing Radiation Detectors for Medical .