An iterative technique for the removal of artifacts caused by the near field effects of a coded aperture imaging system is presented. The technique, we we call z-Clean, first locates high energy sources within a three dimensional field of view using a least squares method and then removes the...

This panel was organized to address the current and anticipated future shortage of chemists with advanced training to fill positions in the nuclear medicine field. Although hard data and statistics are difficult to acquire, we will attempt to highlight the impact of chemistry on nuclear medicine...