This textbook seeks to expand the old concept of Nuclear Medicine so as to adapt it to the new scenarios opened especially by the emergence of hybrid imaging, and more generally by the close interaction with other clinical specialties, and achieve the best possible benefits for patients. In fact, today the diagnostic applications of nuclear medicine cannot be considered as stand-alone procedures, separate from other modalities of diagnostic imaging. This is especially true for those radiologic imaging procedures that can be synergistically combined with nuclear medicine imaging, as is now routinely done with hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/CT (while the use of PET/MR is also growing). Thus, today's Nuclear Medicine specialists are expected to be specialists in multimodality imaging (in addition to expertise in therapy with radionuclides, which is crucial to the autonomy of the discipline). This requirement (which forms the basis of developing a new core curriculum for Nuclear Medicine specialists) forms the guiding concept throughout this new textbook, both in terms of its general structure and in each chapter, especially those devoted to the different clinical applications. Residents in Nuclear Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging and Medical School students as well as School for Nuclear Medicine Technologists will find this textbook an invaluable tool.
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Fundamentals of natural and artificial radioactivity.- Ionizing radiations and their interaction with matter.- General design of radiopharmaceuticals.- Pathophysiology of organs/diseases as it relates to radiopharmaceuticals' uptake.- Single-photon emitting radiopharmaceuticals.- Positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals Radiopharmaceuticals for therapy.- Radiopharmacy/radiochemistry for single-photon emitting and for therapeutic radiopharmaceuticals.- Radiopharmacy/radiochemistry for positron-emitting radiopharmaceuticals.- Methods and instrumentation for measuring radioactivity.- General-purpose and dedicated gamma cameras.- Image acquisition and processing with gamma cameras (including SPECT/CT and dedicated gamma cameras).- Quality control of gamma cameras.- Principles of PET imaging.- Principles of CT imaging.- Principles of MR imaging.- PET/CT and PET/MR tomographs.- Image acquisition and processing with PET/CT and PET/M.- Quality control of PET/CT and PET/MR tomographs.- Essentials of CT image interpretation.- Essentials of MR image interpretation.- General principles of radionuclide therapy in oncology.- Radiation protection for patients, personnel, and the environment.- Principles of radiation biology and dosimetry for nuclear medicine procedures.- Hybrid imaging and radionuclide therapy of skeletal diseases.- Hybrid imaging of the cardiovascular system.- Hybrid imaging of pleuro-pulmonary diseases.- Hybrid imaging of the Central Nervous System.- Hybrid imaging of infection/inflammation.- Hybrid imaging of the gastrointestinal tract.- Hybrid imaging and radionuclide therapy of the liver and biliary tract.- Hybrid imaging and radionuclide therapy in endocrinology.- Hybrid imaging and radionuclide therapy of neuroendocrine tumors.- Hybrid imaging of the lymphatic system.- Radioguided surgery.
