David Hamilton. Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine A Physics Perspective

Springer, 2004. - 456 p.
Diagnostie nuclear medicine is unique in its reliance on, and benefit from, the application
of a range of advanced physieal principles directly to the clinieal situation. It is the
integration of these principles with a knowledge of physiology and pathology that is
essential for effectively producing and interpreting the diagnostie information. The
aim of this book is to describe the practiee of diagnostie nuclear medicine from the
physies perspective, in order to help the practitioner maximise the diagnostic information
available and ensure that the available resources are used in the best way by optimising
the performance of the investigations. This is done by documenting the principles
whieh determine the radiations, radioactive materials, production methods and
safety restraints that must be used, the design parameters and the operating characteristies
of the equipment, the techniques for optimising the data, and the methods for
ensuring maximal information quality. In this way, the potential for and the constraints
on both the discipline and the diagnostic information are explored.