Gamma Ray Emission Imaging in the Medical and Nuclear Safeguards Fields

Peter Dendooven; Tatiana A. Bubba

doi:10.1007/978-3-031-10751-1_7

Gamma Ray Emission Imaging in the Medical and Nuclear Safeguards Fields

Peter Dendooven, Tatiana A. Bubba

Department of Mathematical Sciences

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Abstract

Gamma rays emitted from within an object can reveal information about that object in a non-destructive way, i.e. without physically opening the object and looking inside. This makes gamma ray emission imaging very useful in widely varying applications. In these notes, we highlight its application to the medical field, where we discuss molecular imaging in nuclear medicine and in vivo dose delivery verification in particle beam radiotherapy, and nuclear safeguards field, where imaging of spent nuclear fuel assemblies is part of monitoring the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. The purpose and basic principles of gamma ray emission imaging are discussed as the foundation to look in more detail into the essential instrument design considerations and the iterative image reconstruction procedures. These notes are not intended to be a comprehensive review; their purpose is to introduce gamma ray emission imaging to those that are new to this technique. The examples of implementation that are presented were thus chosen in order to introduce the reader to a fairly wide range of applications and practical implementations.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Euroschool on Exotic Beams, Vol VI.
Editors	S. M. Lenzi, D. Cortina-Gil
Place of Publication	Cham, Switzerland
Publisher	Springer
Pages	245-295
Number of pages	51
ISBN (Electronic)	9783031107511
ISBN (Print)	9783031107504
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10751-1_7
Publication status	Published - 25 Jun 2022

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Name	Lecture Notes in Physics
Volume	1005
ISSN (Print)	0075-8450
ISSN (Electronic)	1616-6361

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Funding Information:
Acknowledgments PD was partially supported by Business Finland under Grant 1845/31/2014. TAB was partially supported by the Royal Society through the Newton International Fellowship grant n. NIF\R1\201695 and was by the Academy of Finland through the postdoctoral grant, decision number 330522.

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