Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine
Subtitle: A Physics Perspective
Contributors: P.J. Riley (Contributor)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: June 14, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 465
ISBN-13: 9783540006909
Subjects: Nuclear medicine; Medical physics; Health Physics; Medical / Nursing; Radionuclide Imaging; Medical; Radiology; Diagnosis; Medical / Radiology & Nuclear Medicine; General; Radioisotope scanning
First sentence: The charm of diagnostic nuclear medicine derives from its ability to provide functional information, as a number, graph or image; by assessing the regional accumulation of administered radioactive materials.
Description: The book provides the comprehensive physics information demanded in the clinical practice of diagnostic nuclear medicine. It addresses the clinical requirements of the scientist, physician and technologist by providing an overview of the discipline in four subject areas: radiation; detection and display; clinical procedures; and quality assurances. Topics discussed include radioactivity, radiopharmaceuticals, radiation protection, radiation detection, non-imaging systems, planar, tomographic and coincidence imaging systems, and display, hardcopy and evaluation of images. Each topic starts from a clinical issue and then explores the underlying physical principles to demonstrate the constraints imposed on, and the potential for optimization of, the diagnostic information.