FIELD: physics.
SUBSTANCE: nuclear imaging system includes: a scanner (8) which detects radiation from a radioisotope contaminated tracer injected into a subject, wherein the tracer includes at least one primary radioisotope component and one or more contamination radioisotope components; a reconstruction processor (28) which reconstructs detected radiation into image representations; at least one of (1) an uptake correction processor (50) which corrects the reconstructed images and the detected radiation in accordance with a decay curve of the radioisotope contaminated tracer and/or (2) a processor (16) which determines the decay curve of the radioisotope contaminated tracer; and a display (14) which displays at least one of (1) a reconstructed image representation corrected for the decay curve of the tracer and/or (2) a reconstructed image without correction and the decay curve of the tracer to enable a diagnostician to correct the uncorrected images during analysis.
EFFECT: high quality of the image of an object.
14 cl, 4 dwg
