A system for quantitatively assessing certain performance parameters of gamma camera systems from reflective print and film transparency final images.
Past efforts at routine evaluation of gamma camera systems performance, using final product images, primarily resulted in qualitative assessments. This paper describes a system for quantitatively determining certain performance parameters of gamma camera systems using paper-backed print and transparent film test images of the same type used for viewing by the nuclear medicine physician. By use of appropriate transmission and line source phantoms, the gamma camera system's spatial resolution, distortion, and flood field uniformity as a function of position in the image field, are determined using a semiautomated image scanning and data reduction system. This system consists of a high-resolution scanning microdensitometer/reflectometer, interfaced to a computer, along with necessary programs to locate bar and line grid intersection points in the image. Also included are algorithms for calculating the various image parameters desired. This system may provide an analytical method for quantitatively assessing certain performance parameters of gamma camera systems, using the final-product images from the cameras.
D003720:Densitometry; D005720:Gamma Rays; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010781:Photography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation* / Q000379:methods