Cherry, Simon R. <br/><br/>
Physics in nuclear medicine / 
Simon R. Cherry, PHD Professor, Departments of Biomedical Engineering and Radiology, Director, Center for Molecular and Genomic Imaging University of California-Davis Davis, California; James A. Sorenson, Michael E. Phelps. 
 - Fourth edition. 
 - Philadelphia :  Elsevier/Saunders,  c2012. 
 - xvii, 523 pages :  illustrations (some col.) ;  27 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>What is nuclear medicine -- Basic atomic and nuclear physics -- Modes of radioactive decay -- Decay of radioactivity -- Isotope production & tracer synthesis -- Interaction of radiation with matter -- Radiation detectors -- Electronic instrumentation for radiation detection systems -- Nuclear counting statistics -- Pulse height spectrometry -- Problems in radiation detection and measurement -- Counting systems -- The gamma camera : basic principles -- Gamma camera performance characteristics -- Image quality in nuclear medicine -- Tomographic reconstruction in nuclear medicine -- Single photon emission computed tomography -- Positron emission tomography -- Multimodality imaging : SPECT/CT and PET/CT -- Data acquisition and digital image processing in nuclear medicine -- Tracer kinetic modeling -- Internal radiation dosimetry -- Radiation safety and health physics. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781416051985 (hardback : alk. paper) 1416051988 (hardback : alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011021330 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical physics.<br/>Nuclear medicine.<br/>Health Physics.<br/>Nuclear Medicine.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>R895  / CHE 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610.1/53 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>WN 110