Due Date: 19.05.

2022 at 11:00 am

Nuclear Medicine
Exercise 3:

Task 1:
What are different types of collimator designs? What is the description for each of them?

Task 2:
What is the septal thickness required for low-energy (of 150 KeV and linear attenuation
coefficient of 21.43 cm-1) lead collimators?
(hole diameter and length of the collimators are respectively 0.25 cm and 2.5 cm.)

Task 3:
What is resolution (FWHM) of the low-energy collimator described in task 2, at source depths of
0 and 10 cm?

Task 4:
Calculate the efficiency of the collimator described in task 2 and 3. (hexagonal holes= 0.26)

Task 5:
A) What is effective half-life?

B) The half-life of Iodin-123 is about 13.27 hours.The time which is taken the Iodin clear from the
body is 5.5 hours, what is the effective half-life Iodin-123 inside the body.

Task 6:
A study was performed on Xe-133 with half-life time of 5.3 days and biological half-life
time of 15 sec. How long did this study last? Use the formula for effective half-life
time calculation and justify your answer.

Task 7:

a) What is SPECT stand for?

b) Draw schematic view of gamma-camera in SPECT. (label all part of it).
c) Draw and label all possible event detection in gamma-camera.
d) What is the function of the head in SPECT and how can the overall efficiency increase?
What is the angle of rotation for single, double and triple head?

Naghmeh Mahmoodian Summer Term 2022