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A Basic Positron Emission Tomography System Constructed to Locate a Radioactive Source in a Bi-dimensional Space
Published on: February 1, 2016
A study on the extrinsic sensitivity and counting efficiency of a gamma camera for a cylindrical source and a
Rukiye Çakır Haliloğlu1, Özlem Karadeniz2, Hatice Durak3
1Department of Medical Physics, Institute of Health Sciences, Dokuz Eylül University, 35340 İnciraltı, İzmir, Turkey.
Abstract:
In this work, the extrinsic counting efficiency and extrinsic sensitivity of a cylindrical source and a gamma camera with a rectangular detector were determined using homogeneous Tc-99m. Scattered radiation effects were evaluated by both analyzing the energy spectrum of 99mTc for the scatter fraction and plotting the extrinsic counting efficiency and sensitivity. It is found that the scattered fraction values increased with increasing source thickness. Calculated extrinsic sensitivity shows a gradually decreasing trend with increasing source thickness. The extrinsic efficiency decreases with increasing source thickness. It is concluded that increasing source to detector distances results with increasing extrinsic counting efficiency but decreasing extrinsic sensitivity.
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