Since the donation of a SPECT camera by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), a busy hospital in Brazil’s city of Niteroi has doubled its capacity to perform heart scans, expanding access to ...

To ensure the best possible use of available resources, various technical factors involved in a nuclear medicine investigation should be optimized for every type of examination. » How do I handle the ...

“In practice, the radiation from the middle of the assembly just barely reaches the detector, i.e. the ‘camera’. We wanted to fix this problem in our ... Riina Virta will defend her doctoral ...

This longstanding course is designed to teach the scientific principles upon which nuclear medicine imaging is based ... The first day primarily covers radionuclides and radiation protection; the ...

for example a ‘gamma camera’. In this way, the radioactive isotope can be followed as it flows through a particular organ in the body. Changes in the amount of gamma emitted from different ...