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In this chapter, types of counting and imaging equipment and their principles of operation have been described briefly. Geiger–Müller counters and dose calibrators are essential in nuclear medicine and are discussed in detail. Scintillation cameras used for imaging consist of detector, photomultiplier tube, amplifier, X–Y logical circuits, and data storage. Principles of scintillation imaging are briefly presented. SPECT and PET equipment and their operation principles are presented. For better delineation of disease detection, CT and MR imaging has been incorporated with SPECT and PET imaging to coregister the two images and also to make attenuation correction. All these aspects have been briefly presented.
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Resolution is the minimum distance between two points in an image that can be detected by a detecting device.
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Saha, G.B. (2018). Instruments for Radiation Detection and Measurement. In: Fundamentals of Nuclear Pharmacy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57580-3_3
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