Chapter 1 Principles and Applications of Nuclear Medical Imaging: A Survey on Recent Developments

1. Introduction

2. Principles of nuclear medical imaging and image analysis

2.1. The conventional scintigraphic imaging

2.1.1. The Anger gamma camera

2.1.1.1. The collimator

2.1.1.2. The scintillator crystal

2.1.1.3. The photomultipliers tubes

2.1.2. Gamma scintigraphic imaging

2.2. Single photon emission computed tomography

2.3. Positron emission tomography

2.4. PET and SPECT images processing and analysis

3. Recent development in nuclear imaging and image analysis

3.1. Recent advances in SPECT and PET imaging systems

3.1.1. PET-CT

3.1.2. SPECT-CT

3.1.3. PET-MRI

3.2. Recent developments in nuclear medical image acquisition and analysis

3.2.1. Registration

3.2.2. Validation

4. Cases studies and future trends of nuclear imaging

5. Conclusions

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