TY  - BOOK
TI  - Physics in nuclear medicine
SN  - 9781416051985 (hbk)
U1  - 610.153 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Philadelphia
PB  - Elservier Saunders
KW  - Nuclear medicine--Medical physics
N1  - 1.	What is nuclear medicine?
2.	Basic atomic and nuclear physics 
3.	Modes of radioactive decay
4.	Decay of radioactivity 
5.	Radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical production 
6.	Interaction radiation with matter 
7.	Radiation detectors 
8.	Electronic instrumentation for radiation detection systems 
9.	Nuclear counting statistics 
10.	Pulse-heigh spectrometry 
11.	Problems in radiation detection and measurements
12.	Counting systems 
13.	The Gamma camera: basic principles
14.	The Gamma camera: performance characteristics 
15.	Image quality in nuclear medicine 
16.	Tomographic recontrcution in nuclear medicine 
17.	Single photon emission computed tomography 
18.	Positron emission tomography 
19.	Hybrid imaging: SPECT/CT and PET/CT 
20.	Digital image processing in Nuclear medicine 
21.	Tracer kinetic modeling 
22.	Internal radiation dosimetry 
23.	Radiation safety and health physics 


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