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This book is an ideal text on PET imaging technology that focuses on the basics, such as physics, instrumentation, production of PET radionuclides and radiopharmaceuticals, and regulations affecting PET. The chapters are concise but comprehensive, making the topic easily understandable, and they are complete with reviews of pertinent basic science and lists of suggested reading. Practical tables and appendixes contain a wealth of valuable data, reflecting the bookÆs usefulness as a reference for nuclear medicine professionals, including physicians, residents, and technologists. The book also benefits technologists and residents preparing for board examinations because of its brevity and clarity of content.
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Preface Our main goal in this book was the creation of a concise text on current radiologic imaging for medical students and residents interested in radiology. After two introductory chapters, an organsystem approach is followed. Applicable imaging techniques and their use and indications are discussed in each organ-related chapter. Question-oriented exercises targeting common diseases in each organ system are included. The first chapter describes the various diagnostic imaging techniques that are available: conventional radiography, nuclear medicine, ultrasonography, computed tomography, and magnetic resonance imaging. In recent years, many new techniques such as CT angiography, CT colonography, MR angiography, and MR cholangiopancreatography have emerged as new generations of CT and MR equipment have been developed. The second chapter introduces the physics of radiation and its related biological effects and basic technical considerations for ultrasound and magnetic resonance imaging. The remaining chapters focus on individual organ systems, including the heart, lungs, breast, bones, joints, abdom