BookMarie Claire Cantone, Christoph Hoeschen, editors.
Contents:
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.