ABSTRACT
Principles for the Scintillation Camera .............................................................. 47 Detector .............................................................................................................. 47 Optical Coupling: Light Guide .......................................................................48 Electronics ......................................................................................................... 49 Analog Circuits (Anger Logics) ...................................................................... 49 Digital Circuits ..................................................................................................50 Pile Up and Mispositioning ............................................................................50 Correction Circuits ...........................................................................................50 Corrections in Light Guide and Preampli‰er............................................... 51 Correction for Spatial Nonlinearity ............................................................... 51 Correction for Energy Nonlinearity ............................................................... 51 Correction for Remaining Nonuniformity ................................................... 51 Correction for Drift .......................................................................................... 52 Correction for Dead Time and Pulse Pile Up ............................................... 52
Photon Collimation ............................................................................................... 52 Parallel Hole Collimators ................................................................................53 Pinhole Collimators .........................................................................................53 Focusing Collimators .......................................................................................55
Sensitivity and Resolution ...................................................................................56 System Sensitivity and System Resolution ........................................................ 57
