Authors: Ramesh Chandra
ISBN-13: 9780781747530, ISBN-10: 0781747538
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: 6th Edition
This widely used text is now fully updated to reflect the broad acceptance and availability of PET, including instrumentation and special radiation safety aspects. Also added are new information on radiopharmaceuticals, newer scintillation materials (BGO), fusion imaging (PET/CT and SPECT/CT), descriptions of SPECT filters, discussions on contrast detail curves, and radiation effects on cell culture. An easy-to-read format and eye-friendly internal design facilitate learning and guide readers through essential details, examples, and true-to-life problems. A testing component at the end of each chapter offers key points for review with questions and answers.
1 | Basic review | 1 |
2 | Nuclides and radioactive processes | 7 |
3 | Radioactivity : law of decay, half-life, and statistics | 20 |
4 | Production of radionuclides | 31 |
5 | Radiopharmaceuticals | 40 |
6 | Interaction of high-energy radiation with matter | 55 |
7 | Radiation dosimetry | 66 |
8 | Detection of high-energy radiation | 77 |
9 | In vitro radiation detection | 95 |
10 | In vivo radiation detection : basic problems, probes, and rectilinear scanners | 103 |
11 | In vivo radiation detection : scintillation camera | 110 |
12 | Operational characteristics and quality control of a scintillation camera | 128 |
13 | Detectability or final contrast in an image | 139 |
14 | Emission computed tomography | 146 |
15 | Biological effects of radiation and risk evaluation from radiation exposure | 160 |
16 | Methods of safe handling of radionuclides and pertaining rules and regulations | 168 |
App. A | Physical characteristics of some radionuclides of interest in nuclear medicine | 177 |
App. B | CGS and SI units | 181 |
App. C | Exponential table | 183 |
App. D | Radionuclides of interest in nuclear medicine | 185 |
App. E | Organ masses of a standard man | 187 |