Abstract
Nuclear Medicine plays a vital role in the diagnosis of benign and malignant cancer tissues. The quality assurance program of gamma cameras in nuclear medicine provides an artifact-free diagnosis. One of the most important quality control (QC) is to test the response of detectors to a uniform distributed source called as uniformity test. The QC of image uniformity test includes intrinsic uniformity (IU) and Differential uniformity (DU) of CFOV (Central Field of View) and UFOV (Useful Field of View). The purpose of this study is to evaluate the best value of parameters for getting the best uniformity results and set as a benchmark for checking the performance of gamma cameras in the future. It is analyzed that using an energy window placed at 140 KeV at 20%, with a matrix size of 256 x 256, acquiring 60 million counts and the source activity close to 500 µC obtained images are good and both uniformities are within the manufacturer’s requirements, however, increasing the number of acquired counts and by mounting a source at a distance larger than 2m, images become better.
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