© Springer Japan 2016Jun Shigemura and Rethy Kieth Chhem (eds.)Mental Health and Social Issues Following a Nuclear Accident10.1007/978-4-431-55699-2_5 5. Thinking Across Disaster Kim Fortun1 and Alli Morgan1 (1) Department of STS, Russell Sage Laboratory 5114, Rensselaer Polytechnic…
© Springer Japan 2016Jun Shigemura and Rethy Kieth Chhem (eds.)Mental Health and Social Issues Following a Nuclear Accident10.1007/978-4-431-55699-2_4 4. Societal and Ethical Aspects of Radiation Risk Perception Deborah Helen Oughton1 (1) Centre for Environmental Radioactivity (CERAD), Norwegian…
, which can be assumed to be two dimensional without a loss of generality, and impulse response . Let be squared area of the size , and let be a…
the field of real numbers, and with Euclidean plane, the elements of which are vectors: means that , where both x and y are real. For any two vectors a…
(3.1) where A 0 is the initial activity. The isotopes are chosen so that their half-lives reflect the metabolic processes that are being investigated; in any case, half-lives between hours…
Fig. 9.1 The effect of X-rays 2 weeks after of a wrongly set CT perfusion scan. Photo from al.com Any program for QA in medical imaging involves measurements of radiation…
Fig. 11.1 Illustration of the PET probe principle The probe provides events of a different type, where one of the two annihilation photons interacts in the additional detector. The excellent…
Fig. 5.1 Reduction of the artifacts present around the bladder in non-TOF reconstruction. Reprinted from [1] with permission of the Society of Nuclear Medicine Current commercial TOF-PET systems partially address…
Fig. 2.1 An old image showing the distribution of function in a normal thyroid gland measured with 131I The clinical scene in nuclear medicine today is hybrid imaging. It is…
Fig. 10.1 Reconstruction of a phantom slice using two different sampling schemes which are supplementary to each other (panels (a) and (b), respectively). In the standard reconstruction, this would still…
