Basic Science of PET Imaging
This book offers a wide-ranging and up-to-date overview of the basic science underlying PET and its preclinical and clinical applications in modern medicine. In addition, it provides the reader with a sound understanding of the scientific principles and u
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Basic Science of PET Imaging
Magdy M. Khalil Editor
Basic Science of PET Imaging
Editor Magdy M. Khalil Medical Biophysics Department of Physics Faculty of Science Helwan University Cairo Egypt
ISBN 978-3-319-40068-6 ISBN 978-3-319-40070-9 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-40070-9
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أهي ه ا ڌب ٳأ ڧر ﷲ ه و ڌغه ڌċ I dedicate this book to my Mother. God Bless her at all times.
Preface
This book Basic Science of PET Imaging was designed to be a daughter element of the parent book Basic Sciences of Nuclear Medicine (Springer, Khalil MM (Ed), 2011) with special focus on positron emission tomography (PET) imaging with its rather extended scientific disciplines and clinical applications. The rapid growth and advances in medical imaging in general and in PET imaging in particular have motivated and required a dedicated volume recording this historical moment in the lifetime of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. I think the release of the book is timely as it captures a snapshot of one of the most important and dynamically changing fields of medicine. PET imaging technologies and their clinical and biomedical applications have become an integral part and indispensable tool in daily practice of modern medicine. It was a very exciting mission to collect most if not all of scientific bases and underlying fundamental concepts about PET imaging in a single volume. This has been made with careful attention to describe the basic scientific principles, highlighting new advances and shedding light on recent developments in most of the covered topics. The power of PET imaging is cur
