Eugene C. Lin and Abass Alavi (Eds): PET and PET/CT. A Clinical Guide. Third Edition

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This is the third edition of a book first published in 2005 and reissued in 2009. Therefore it is a full revision of the previous editions appearing 10 years after the last revision. Nevertheless, this book substantially retains the structure and certainly the soul and the scientific and didactic character of the two previous editions. The editors are Eugene C. Lin, diagnostic and nuclear radiologist at the Virginia Mason Medical Center in Seattle, and Abass Alavi, at present Professor and Director of Research Education at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. He is known worldwide as a pioneer of positron emission tomography and is recognized as one of the most respected scientists in the field of nuclear medicine. …