Abstract
The sections in this article are
- 1 Radioactive Decay
- 2 β Decay
- 3 Counting Statistics
- 4 γ-Ray Interactions with the Matter
- 5 Scintillators
- 6 Emission Tomography
- 7 Image Quality
- 8 Applications
- 9 Summary
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