Hossein Jadvar and Patrick M. Colletti (Eds): Nuclear Medicine: the Essentials

Excerpt

Nuclear Medicine: The Essentials is a book for all who need to know the most relevant information on Nuclear Medicine in adults and children, individuating further deeper and wider information or more precise technical specifications in other publications. The major quality of this publication may be found at first in its didactic format, simple and effective, improved by clear and explicative images and by the presence of self-assessment questions at the end of each chapter. Furthermore, it is interesting to evidence the description of all the most important procedures, including those actually less diffuse, but still useful, as many of those utilizing gamma emitters. Although is not the goal to present the most advanced state of the art and the more interesting perspectives, the book also describes issues only recently applied in clinical practice, such as PET/MRI, targeted radionuclide therapy, theranostics, and translational molecular imaging. …