What is going on inside your body

Conference Paper

Jambi, Layal . 2015

• نوع عمل المنشور: One powerpoint slide
• رابط المنشور على الويب: http://www2.le.ac.uk/research/festival/3MT/2015
• اسم المؤتمر: Three Minute Thesis Compitition
• عنوان المؤتمر: University of Leicester
• تاريخ المؤتمر: الأربعاء, آيار (مايو) 20, 2015

مستخلص المنشور

Introduction

Sometimes seeing things from the outside does not tell the whole story. It might look fine on the outside but inside all may not be well. With this in mind, nuclear diagnostic imaging is an area of radiology that allows physicians to see from the outside how the body is working inside. Nuclear medicine is a medical specialty that can detect gamma radiation coming from inside the patient’s body after the injection of the radioactive material. Thus, determining the cause of medical problems based on organ function. Gamma radiation can be detected by devices called gamma cameras. The sensing elements in these cameras are called radiation detectors. Scintillation detectors are the most commonly radiation detectors used in nuclear measurement systems to convert radiation energy into an electronic signal. The development of portable gamma cameras offers new applications for intraoperative imaging. Multi-modality systems have a long heritage in nuclear medicine. A multi-model gamma-optical system has been proposed as one possibility for improving surgical utility.
The main purpose of this work was to evaluate the efficacy in medical imaging of the scintillator based camera i.e. Hybrid Gamma Camera (HGC) developed in the Space Research Centre, University of Leicester.

Conclusion
The performance characteristics of a hybrid camera have been described and initial images demonstrate that it is ideally suited for intraoperative imaging. The anatomical context provided by the optical camera aids the physical localization of radiopharmaceutical uptake. These studies encourage us to carry out further evaluation in preparation for its use in a surgical theatre setting.