BookSimon R. Cherry, James A. Sorenson, Michael E. Phelps.
Contents:
What is nuclear medicine?
Basic atomic and nuclear physics
Modes of radioactive decay
Decay of radioactivity
Radionuclide and radiopharmaceutical production
Interaction of radiation with matter
Radiation detectors
Electronic instrumentation for radiation detection systems
Nuclear counting statistics
Pulse-height spectrometry
Problems in radiation detection and measurement
Counting systems
The gamma camera : basic principles
The gamma camera : performance characteristics
Image quality in nuclear medicine
Tomographic reconstruction in nuclear medicine
Single photon emission computed tomography
Positron emission tomography
Hybrid imaging : SPECT/CT and PET/CT
Digital image processing in nuclear medicine
Tracer kinetic modeling
Internal radiation dosimetry
Radiation safety and health physics.