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An instrument used to image emissions from a subject after the injection of a radioactive drug which releases gamma rays. Both planar imaging and SPECT use gamma cameras. The camera consists of a two-dimensional array of detectors.

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  1. University of Tennessee, 12334 Bluff Shore, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37922, USA

    Joseph A. Thie Ph.D., D.Sc.

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Thie, J.A. (2012). G. In: Nuclear Medicine Imaging: An Encyclopedic Dictionary. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25035-4_7

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