Nuclear Medicine Imaging: An Encyclopedic Dictionary

✍ Scribed by Joseph A. Thie

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 152
• Edition: 2012
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The rapidly growing area of nuclear medicine imaging receives only limited attention in broad-based medical dictionaries. This encyclopedic dictionary is intended to fill the gap. More than 400 entries of between one and three paragraphs are included, defining and carefully explaining terms in an appropriate degree of detail. The dictionary encompasses concepts used in planar, SPECT, and PET imaging protocols and covers both scanner operations and popular data analysis approaches. In spite of the mathematical complexities in the acquisition and analysis of images, the explanations given are easy to understand and many helpful concrete examples are provided. The book will be ideal for those who wish to obtain a rapid grasp of a concept beyond a definition of a few words but do not have the time to search the reference literature. The almost tutorial-like style accommodates the needs of students, nuclear medicine technologists, and varieties of other medical professionals.

✦ Table of Contents

001Download PDF (115.0 KB)front-matter
Nuclear Medicine Imaging: An Encyclopedic Dictionary
Copyright Page
Preface
Contents
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A
2D mode
3D mode
4D
Absorbed dose
Accuracy
Acquisition time
Activity
Activity concentration
ALARA
Algorithm
Anger camera
Annihilation
Anterior
Area under the curve
Artifact
Asymmetry index
Atom
Attenuation
Attenuation coefficient
Attenuation correction
AUC
Autoradiograph
Autoradiography
Axial
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B
Background
Background correction
Backprojection
Baseline
Becquerel
Bed
Bed position
Beta
Beta particle
Bias
Binding potential
Biological clearance rate
Biological half-life
Blank scan
Blood flow
Blood volume
BP
Brodmann’s area
Bull’s eye
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C
Calibration factor
CAT
Caudal
CBF
Center of rotation
Cerebral blood flow
Cine
Circumferential profile
Clearance
Clearance rate
Coefficient of variance
Coefficient of variation
Cold spot
Collimator
Color scale
Compartment
Compartmental model
Computed tomography
Computer assisted tomography
Computer modeling
Computerized axial tomography
Concentration
Confidence interval
Conjugate views
Constraints
Contour
Contrast
Contrast agent
Contrast medium
Convolution
COR
Coregistration
Coronal
Correlation coefficient
Cost function
Count rate
Counter
Counting efficiency
Counts per minute
Counts per second
Cow
cpm
cps
Cross calibration
CT
CT number
Curie
Cutoff frequency
CV
Cycles per second
Cyclotron
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D
DAR
Decay
Decay constant
Derivative
DICOM
Differential absorption ratio
Differential uptake ratio
Diffuse
Disintegration constant
Disintegration rate
Disintegrations per minute
Disintegrations per second
Distal
Distribution
Distribution activity ratio
Distribution function
Distribution volume
Dorsal
Dose
Dose calibrator
Dose equivalent
Dose rate
dpm
dps
Dual-time scan
DUR
Dynamic range
Dynamic scan
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E
EDV
Effective half-life
Ejection fraction
Electron
Electron volt
Electronic collimation
Elution
Emission scan
End diastolic volume
End systolic volume
Energy
Equivalent dose
Equivalent time
ESV
eV
Exponential
Exposure
Extraction fraction
Extravasation
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F
FDG
Fiducial marker
Field of view
Filter
Filtered backprojection
Flood field
Flood image
Flood source
Fluorodeoxyglucose
Focal
Fourier analysis
FOV
Frame
Frequency
Full width at half maximum
Functional imaging
Fused image
FWHM
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G
Gamma
Gamma camera
Gamma radiation
Gantry
Gate
Gated scan
Gaussian
Gaussian distribution
Generator
Geometric mean
Gjedde-Patlak plot
Glucose level
Gray
Gray scale
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H
Half-life
Header tag
Histogram
Horizontal long axis
Hot spot
Hounsfield unit
HU
Hybrid imaging
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I
ID
Identifiability
Image
Image feature
Imaging phantom
Inferior
Influx constant
Infusion pump
Infusion rate
Injected dose
Input function
Integral
Intercept
Ionizing radiation
Isocontour
Isotope
Iteration
Iterative reconstruction
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JK
JPEG
Kinetic analysis
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L
Label
Lateral
Least squares
Ligand
Line of response
Line pair
Line spread function
Linear parameter identification
Linear scan
List mode
Log
Logan plot
Logarithm
Long axis
Lookup table
LOR
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M
Macroparameter
Matrix
Matrix size
Maximum intensity projection
Maximum pixel
Maximum voxel
MBF
Mean
Mean life
Medial
Median
Medical internal radiation dose
Metabolic process
Metabolic rate
Metabolite
MicroPET, micro PET, or micro-PET
Milking
MIP
MIRD
Model
Mole
Molecular imaging
Monte Carlo
MPR
MUGA
Multiplanar reformatting
Multiple-gated acquisition
Multiple-time graphical analysis
Myocardial blood flow
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NO
National Electrical Manufacturers Association
NEC
NECR
NEMA
Noise
Noise equivalent count rate
Nonlinear parameter identification
Normal
Normal distribution
Normalize
Normalized time
Nucleus
Nyquist frequency
Oblique
Overlap
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P
PACS
Parameter
Parameter identification
Parametric image
Partial volume effect
Partition coefficient
Patlak plot
Percent injected dose
Perfusion
PET
PET/CT
Phantom
Pharmacokinetics
Phase
Phase analysis
Photon
Pinhole camera
Pixel
Pixel size
Planar imaging
Plane
Point spread function
Poisson distribution
Polar map
Positron
Positron emission tomography
Posterior
Postinjection
Precision
Probability density
Probability distribution
Projection
Prone
Proximal
p-value
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Q
QA
QC
Quality assurance
Quality control
Quality factor
Quantitation
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R
R
Rad
Radiation
Radiation absorbed dose
Radioactive
Radioactive source
Radioactivity
Radioisotope
Radionuclide
Radionuclide imaging
Radiopharmaceutical
Rate constant
RBE
Rebinning
Receptor
Reconstruction
Rectilinear scan
Reference region
Region of interest
Registration
Relative biological effectiveness
Rem
Reorientation
Reproducibility
Residual
Reslicing
Resolution
Robust
Roentgen
Roentgen equivalent man
ROI
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S
Sagittal
Scan
Scintigraphy
Scintillation detector
Score
Scout scan
SD
SE
Segmentation
SEM
Semiquantitative
Sensitivity
Septa
Short axis
Sievert
Signal to noise ratio
Significant
Simulation
Single-photon emission computed tomography
Single-photon emission tomography
Sinogram
Slice
Slope
Smoothing
S/N
SNR
Sokoloff model
Solid-state detector
Source
Specific activity
Specific volume
SPECT
SPECT/CT
SPET
Spicular
Spill-in
Spillover
SPM
Standard deviation
Standard error
Standard error of the mean
Standardized uptake ratio
Standardized uptake value
Statistical distribution
Statistical parameter mapping
Statistically significant
Steady state
Stereotatic
Stroke volume
Superior
Supine
SUR
Survey meter
SUV
SUV max
SUV peak
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T
TAC
Tag
Talairach space
Target
Throughput
TID
TIFF
Time activity curve
Time of flight
T/N
TOF
Tomogram
Tomography
Topogram
Tracer
Transaxial
Transfer constant
Transient ischemic dilation
Transmission scan
Transverse plane
Tumor-to-normal
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UV
Uptake
Variance
Ventilation-to-perfusion ratio
Ventral
Vertical long axis
Visual interpretation
VOI
Volume curve
Volume of distribution
Volume of interest
Volume rendering
Voxel
Voxel size
V/Q
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WXYZ
Washout
Well counter
Whole body scan
Window
Zoom
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Appendix: Terminology Comments
Accuracy
Activity
Asymmetry index
Blood flow
Blood volume
Contrast
DAR
Differential absorption ratio
Differential uptake ratio
Distribution activity ratio
Dose
Dose rate
DUR
Gamma
Glucose level
Half-life
Horizontal long axis
Log
Logarithm
Precision
Quality control
Quality assurance
Short axis
Standardized uptake ratio
Standardized uptake value
SUR
SUV
SUV peak
Vertical long axis
Index