General

General Nuclear Medicine

Generators

Radiopharmaceutical Quality Control

Sterility

Chemical Purity

Radionuclide Purity

Radiochemical Purity

Geiger Counter:

Dose Calibrator:

Constancy
Linearity
Accuracy
Geometry

Gamma Camera Characteristics:

Spatial resolution

Sensitivity

Temporal resolution

Collimators:

Resolution and Sensitivity

Types of Collimators:

Parallel hole

Converging and Diverging

Pinhole

Camera Quality Control

SPECT Imaging:

Field Uniformity

Center of Rotation

Detector Alignment

Patient motion

Tomographic Reconstruction:

Attenuation Correction

Filtered back-projection

Iterative reconstruction

Object Size Correction (Finite resolution effects)

Agents and Critical Organs