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Gamma cameras are complex and well established pieces of equipment that enable imaging of tracer-level quantities of radionuclides in nuclear medicine. In this chapter we introduce the different components of a gamma camera and how these work together to form the medical image.
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Willson, T. (2023). Principles of SPECT. In: Van den Wyngaert, T., Gnanasegaran, G., Strobel, K. (eds) Clinical Atlas of Bone SPECT/CT. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26449-8_3
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