DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN OF A NEAR-FIELD HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA CAMERA FOR USE WITH NEUTRON STIMULATED EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY by

DEVELOPMENT AND DESIGN OF A NEAR-FIELD HIGH-ENERGY GAMMA CAMERA FOR USE WITH NEUTRON STIMULATED EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY by Amy Congdon Sharma Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University Date: November 14, 2007 Approved: ___________________________ Gregg E. Trahey, Ph.D., Co-Supervisor ___________________________ Georgia D. Tourassi, Ph.D., Co-Supervisor ___________________________ Calvin R. Howell, PhD ___________________________ Srinivasan Mukundan, Jr., Ph.D., M.D. ___________________________ Timothy G. Turkington, Ph.D. An abstract of a dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Biomedical Engineering in the Graduate School of Duke University 2007 Copyright by Amy Congdon Sharma 2007