Focusing on radiation safety, this updated guide serves as an essential resource for nuclear medicine professionals preparing for board certification. It outlines the requirements set by the NRC for appointing radiation safety officers and details the necessary training courses. The content comprehensively covers all relevant subjects needed for both the 40-hour and 200-hour radiation safety courses, ensuring that technologists are well-equipped to handle radioactive materials safely and effectively.
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Froma noted author comes this new edition for technologists, practitioners, residents, and students in radiology and nuclear medicine. Encompassing major topics in nuclear medicine from the basic physics of radioactive decay to instrumentation and radiobiology, it is an ideal review for Board and Registry examinations. New features in the Second Edition include: - various new scintillation and solid-state detectors - digital cameras and solid state digital cameras - elaborated description of nonuniformity and nonlinearity in images and gamma camera response to high count rates - updated description of image reconstruction using both filter backprojection and iterative methods - new chapter on computers and their use in nuclear medicine - new section on PET detectors and dual-head coincidence counters - additional information on internal dosimetry including cumulated activity, mean absorbed dose, and effective dose - expanded chapter on radiation biology including cancer risk from nuclear medicine studies - new NRC Regulations