[Intl_DxMedPhys] Gamma Camera Max Count Rate Perpendicular versus Off-Angle

Tue Jun 24 12:34:15 EDT 2025

Agreed Nima – I also ignore since I perform the same geometry each year; the Intevo Bold comes in around 314-318 consistently between heads and YOY.  I’m using ~ 1 mCi.

Dan Januseski, MS, DABR
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I’ve also noticed angular dependencies. But I usually ignore, since I treat this as more of a consistency check. For my Symbia Intevo Bolds, I’ve set the pass/fail criteria at +/- 5% of Siemens reference value: One also notices variations depending
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I’ve also noticed angular dependencies. But I usually ignore, since I treat this as more of a consistency check. For my Symbia Intevo Bolds, I’ve set the pass/fail criteria at +/- 5% of Siemens reference value: One also notices variations depending
I’ve also noticed angular dependencies. But I usually ignore, since I treat this as more of a consistency check. For my Symbia Intevo Bolds, I’ve set the pass/fail criteria at +/- 5% of Siemens reference value:

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One also notices variations depending on what window you use as well.

Plus, are you maybe too close to the head? I use 5mCi.

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Subject: [Intl_DxMedPhys] Gamma Camera Max Count Rate Perpendicular versus Off-Angle

Good morning, We assess max count rate on a gamma camera by moving a point source (usually 0.  5-1 mCi) closer to the detector until we observe the peak rate, before it starts to fall off again due to the paralyzable dead time. I’ve
Good morning, We assess max count rate on a gamma camera by moving a point source (usually 0. 5-1 mCi) closer to the detector until we observe the peak rate, before it starts to fall off again due to the paralyzable dead time. I’ve always
Good morning,

We assess max count rate on a gamma camera by moving a point source (usually 0.5-1 mCi) closer to the detector until we observe the peak rate, before it starts to fall off again due to the paralyzable dead time. I’ve always done this with the activity perpendicular to the surface of the detector. But we recently noticed that if you approach the detector at an angle, you can reach a higher count rate. I don’t know if this is true for every unit – I noticed it first on a Siemens Symbia and then made the same observation on an old Philips Vertex. The change is pretty substantial. On the Vertex, measuring perpendicular I observed around 205 kcps, but from an angle I managed to get 236 kcps.

In both cases, the dead time of the counting system should be fixed, so there should only be one max count rate, right? How could I be getting two different values based on the angle of approach? Has anyone else seen this?

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