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By Drew Weisenberger. Slides hosted by NIST: www.nist.gov/document/drewweisenbergerpdf

PDF pages 4–7 explain scintillation detection, planar gamma imaging and the technetium-99m and PET photon energies.

An experimental physicist who develops particle detectors and applies nuclear-physics instrumentation to biomedical imaging.^[ref] In his presentation on detector technology, a scintillator converts deposited gamma ray energy into optical light, and a photomultiplier turns that light into an electrical signal. Combining position-sensitive detection with compact detector modules enables specialized gamma cameras rather than requiring every imaging task to use the same instrument.^[ref]