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Limits of Tumor Detectability in Nuclear Medicine and PET

Author(s) -

Yusuf E. Erdi

Publication year - 2012

Publication title -

molecular imaging and radionuclide therapy

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.292

H-Index - 7

eISSN - 2147-1959

pISSN - 2146-1414

DOI - 10.4274/mirt.138

Subject(s) - nuclear medicine , imaging phantom , nuclear medicine imaging , positron emission tomography , gamma camera , scanner , medicine , coincidence , medical imaging , physics , radiology , optics , pathology , alternative medicine

Nuclear medicine is becoming increasingly important in the early detection of malignancy. The advantage of nuclear medicine over other imaging modalities is the high sensitivity of the gamma camera. Nuclear medicine counting equipment has the capability of detecting levels of radioactivity which exceed background levels by as little as 2.4 to 1. This translates to only a few hundred counts per minute on a regular gamma camera or as few as 3 counts per minute when using coincidence detection on a positron emission tomography (PET) camera.

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