Handbook

This subject supports a student to develop a deep understanding of the principles associated with the imaging technology employed in conventional Nuclear Medicine; including relevant physics, electronics, counting statistics, pulse-height spectrometry and image quality. Students explore the physics and instrumentation of the gamma camera, SPECT and PET; including hybrid and pre-clinical technology. Nuclear Medicine computer hardware and software, associated hardware, computer operating systems and language, Nuclear Medicine computer graphics, image acquisition data analysis and image reconstruction are all explored in detail.