Ignasi Carrio and Pablo Ros (Eds.): PET/MRI Methodology and Clinical Applications

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Ignasi Carrio, Professor at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, is too young to be considered one of the fathers of nuclear medicine. Nevertheless, he has extensive top-level experience in our discipline, having been President of EANM and, for many years, Editor-in-Chief of European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (EJNMMI), which under his stewardship attained its highest ever impact factor. As a consequence, we can consider him, if not a father, at least a wise and experienced brother, able to give us a correct reading of the present and a solid vision for the future of molecular imaging. It is therefore no accident that he has edited one of the first books on PET/MRI, the newest, as yet little-known tool in the radiological area. This 163-page publication with 60 illustrations (48 in color) has been co-edited by Pablo Ros, of University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cleveland. The authors were recruited from the pioneer groups in Europe and the USA. …