The role of radiation physics in nuclear medicine -- The molecular imaging pathway to biomedical physics -- Mechanisms of the interactions between radiation and matter -- Principles of monte carlo calculations and codes -- Sealed radionuclide and X-Ray sources in nuclear medicine -- Radiopharmaceutical production -- Research and development of new radiopharmaceuticals -- Basic principles of detection of ionizing radiation used in medical imaging -- Scintillators and semiconductor detectors -- New trends in detectors for medical imaging -- The PET magnifier probe -- Algorithms for image reconstruction -- Biokinetic models for radiopharmaceuticals -- Voxel phantoms for internal dosimetry.