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Rachael Powsner (radiology, Boston U.), Palmer (radiology, Harvard Medical School) and Edward Powsner (former chief, Nuclear Medicine Service, Veterans Administration Hospital, Allen Park, MI) introduce radiology and nuclear medicine residents and fellows, cardiac medicine fellows, and nuclear medicine technology students to nuclear medicine physics and instrumentation. They begin with an introduction to nuclear physics and the interactions of radiation and matter, then discuss instrumentation used for production of nuclides, the measurement of doses, surveying radioactivity, and imaging, as well as an introduction to information technology, instrumentation quality control, radiation biology, radiation safety, and accidents. This edition has four new chapters, updated coverage of CT and hybrid scanning systems (positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) and single-photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT)), new discussion of recent technology based on solid state detectors and new scanner designs optimized for cardiac imaging, new coverage of PACs (picture archiving and communications system) and DICOM (digital imaging and communications in medicine) systems, more on image reconstruction and processing techniques, and new material on methods of image display. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
