Nuclear medicine

The fourth edition of Nuclear Medicine Board Review: Questions and Answers for Self-AssessmentNuclear Medicine Board Review: Questions and Answers for Self-Assessment, 4th Edition mirrors cutting-edge advances in this key field.

Radiation protection is a core element of radiologic technology programmes and daily practice alike.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

The last three decades have provided opportunities to explore the potential of treating malignant diseases with antibodies or other targeting molecules labelled with nuclides.

"e;More than half of the world's population is at risk of the tropical diseases malaria, leprosy, schistosomiasis, lymphatic filariasis, onchocerciasis, Chagas' disease, African trypanosomiasis and leishmaniasis and half a billion are infected with at least one of these diseases"e;.

Multidetector CT (MDCT) is much more than an incremental impro- ment over the previous technology.

This book addresses the most relevant imaging techniques in order to detect inflammation and infection in the most common cardiovascular diseases.

Bone Tumors: A Practical Guide to Imaging is a concise guide to common tumors encountered by physicians in daily practice.

This book is a guide for the constantly growing community of the users of medical thermal imaging.

This book, edited by leading experts in radiology, nuclear medicine, and radiation oncology, offers a wide-ranging, state of the art overview of the specifics and the benefits of a multidisciplinary approach to the use of imaging in image-guided radiation treatments for different tumor types.

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This is a practical guide to tomographic image reconstruction with projection data, with strong focus on Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

This book serves as an introduction to the dynamic field of radiology for medical students, non-radiology house staff, physician assistants, nurse practitioners, radiology assistants, and other allied health professionals and provides information that ranges from basic radiographic principles to advanced imaging techniques.

Mathematical modelling is an important part of nuclear medicine.

The philosophy of this NATO Advanced Research Workshop and the monograph it has yielded is that if you put a small number of very talented and creative scientists of different backgrounds and documented accomplishments together in a cloistered place for a few days to consider a very important and timely topic, many new ideas will be generated.

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955.

Detailed anatomic drawings and state-of-the-art radiologic images combine to produce this essential Atlas of Lymph Node Anatomy.

In the new edition of this very successful book, European and North American experts present the state of the art in diagnostic and therapeutic radionuclide procedures.

This book introduces molecular imaging and Target Therapy in various cancers.

An excellent introduction to the basic concepts of nuclear medicine physics This Third Edition of Essentials of Nuclear Medicine Physics and Instrumentation expands the finely developed illustrated review and introductory guide to nuclear medicine physics and instrumentation.

Breast cancer is the most common malignancy among the female population.

In contrast to most anatomic radiographic imaging techniques, nuclear medicine permits real time, non-invasive imaging of human physiology and pathophysiology and also allows for exquisite targeting of disease with therapeutic radiology.

This book, now in a revised and updated second edition, covers the full spectrum of clinical applications of SPECT/CT in the diagnosis and therapy planning of benign and malignant diseases.

This book comes at a good time.

The highest-yield, most complete nuclear radiology exam prep and learning tool available today!

This atlas is a concise but comprehensive guide to the diverse patterns of response to immunotherapy as observed on Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/CT) and other conventional imaging modalities, including CT and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI).

This book covers scientific, clinical, and educational aspects of radiotheranostics in cancer control.

Evidence-Based Imaging presents the radiologist with a user-friendly guide to the evidence-based science and the merit behind the diagnostic imaging studies performed in medicine.

An excellent reference for both students and practitioners of nuclear medicine, this text presents a thorough discussion of normal and abnormal physiology of organ function through the use of scintigraphy.

This is a practical guide to tomographic image reconstruction with projection data, with strong focus on Computed Tomography (CT) and Positron Emission Tomography (PET).

This book is designed as a reference manual that is exceptional in systematically discussing every aspect of nuclear medicine imaging of infections, with careful explanation of the most up-to-date concepts and recent guidelines on diagnostic flowcharts as shared between the EANM, ESR, ESNR, ESCMID, ESC, EACVI, ECCO, ESGAR and EBJIS.

In 194 cases featuring over 550, high-quality images, Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Cases provides a succinct review of clinically relevant cases covering the full range of nuclear medicine.

Imaging-Guided Interventional Breast Techniques instructs the reader on the performance of invasive breast procedures and discusses issues related to the selection and purchase of equipment to perform these cutting edge techniques.

This volume presents pedagogical content to understand theoretical and practical aspects of diagnostic imaging techniques.

Atlas of Virtual Colonoscopy thoroughly revises and updates Abraham Dachman's bestselling first edition.

Binary systems for the treatment of cancer potentially are among the most attractive of the new therapeutic modalities that currently are under investigation.

After World War II, the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) began mass-producing radioisotopes, sending out nearly 64,000 shipments of radioactive materials to scientists and physicians by 1955.

Pediatric Nuclear Medicine has emerged as the standard text in the field.

This book provides a rapid and concise guide to PET (PET/CT and PET/MRI) molecular imaging, concentrating extensive information on PET radiopharmaceuticals in a single volume.

The field of vascular anomalies has grown rapidly in last 25 years.

Scintigraphic imaging with radiolabeled blood elements has continued to be a useful diagnostic modality.

This book gathers a collection of cases with challenging diagnoses, in which nuclear medicine examinations have been particularly helpful in terms of the final diagnosis or follow-up.

Delirium, stupor and coma are common clinical states that confront clinicians in almost every medical specialty.

Written specifically for those candidates about to sit for the FRCR part II examination, the format will also be of use to other trainee radiologists who are not specialists in this field.

The disorders induced by iodine deficiency affect at least one billion people.

Published in 1989: The short history of medical use of NMR is given.

This book offers an updated review of malignant mesothelioma, including the latest advances in our understanding of its genetic control and molecular biology, as well as pre-clinical and clinical research.

This book, the second of two volumes dedicated to ethics in social networking and business, presents the future and changing paradigms related to ethics, and morality in our interconnected society.

Essential Nuclear Medicine Physics provides an excellent introduction to the basic concepts of the daunting area of nuclear physics.