SPECT

Dr Dale L Bailey is Principal Physicist at the Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, St Leonards, Sydney, Australia. Dr Steven R Meikle is Associate Professor of Medical Physics at the School of Medical Radiation Sciences, and Co-Director Ramaciotti Centre for Brain Imaging, University of Sydney, Australia.

• The Development of Emission Tomography in Nuclear Medicine.- Single Photon Imaging Physics.- Data Acquisition in SPECT.- Image Processing and Digital Acquisition.- Image Reconstruction.- Transmission Scanning and Attenuation Correction.- Scatter Correction and Quantification.- Quality Control and Quality Assurance in SPECT (incl. Digital Phantoms) .- Animal Scanning in SPECT.- Motion Detection and Correction.- Clinical Applications I - Cardiac Imaging.- Clinical Applications II - Brain Imaging.- Clinical Applications III - Lung Ventilation/Perfusion and Musculoskeletal.- SPECT/CT and Image registration.- SPECT in RTP and Internal Radionuclide Dosimetry.- New Developments.- SPECT in Drug Discovery.- Appendix: Table of Useful Single Photon Emitting Radionuclides.