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Radiation Physics for Nuclear Medicine
The field of nuclear medicine is expanding rapidly, with the development of exciting new diagnostic methods and treatments relevant to a variety of diseases. This growth is closely associated with significant advances in radiation physics. In this book, acknowledged experts explain the basic princip...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edición: | 1st ed. 2011. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto Completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The role of radiation physics in nuclear medicine
- The molecular imaging pathway to biomedical physics
- Fundamental processes on radiation physics: Mechanisms of interaction between radiation and matter. Principles of calculation: Monte Carlo codes
- Radiation sources and radiopharmaceutical production: Radiation sources for medical applications. Radiopharmaceutical production. Research and development of new radiopharmaceuticals
- Radiation detectors for medical applications: Basic principles of detection for ionizing radiation. Semiconductor and scintillator detectors. New trends in radiation detectors
- New frontiers in nuclear medicine: The PET magnifying probe. Algorithms for image reconstruction. Biokinetic models. Voxel phantoms for internal dosimetry.