Physics in nuclear medicine 

 - 4th ed. 
 - Philadelphia :  Elservier Saunders,  2012 
 - 523 p.  
<br/><br/>1.	What is nuclear medicine?<br/>2.	Basic atomic and nuclear physics <br/>3.	Modes of radioactive decay<br/>4.	Decay of radioactivity <br/>5.	Radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical production <br/>6.	Interaction radiation with matter <br/>7.	Radiation detectors <br/>8.	Electronic instrumentation for radiation detection systems <br/>9.	Nuclear counting statistics <br/>10.	Pulse-heigh spectrometry <br/>11.	Problems in radiation detection and measurements<br/>12.	Counting systems <br/>13.	The Gamma camera: basic principles<br/>14.	The Gamma camera: performance characteristics <br/>15.	Image quality in nuclear medicine <br/>16.	Tomographic recontrcution in nuclear medicine <br/>17.	Single photon emission computed tomography <br/>18.	Positron emission tomography <br/>19.	Hybrid imaging: SPECT/CT and PET/CT <br/>20.	Digital image processing in Nuclear medicine <br/>21.	Tracer kinetic modeling <br/>22.	Internal radiation dosimetry <br/>23.	Radiation safety and health physics <br/><br/> 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416051985 (hbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Nuclear medicine--Medical physics
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.153  / P5695