This book is written as both a text and a reference book. It contains numerous images from the biological sciences and clinical practice, tables, graphs, and fig- ures, as well as exercises that are worked out to aid the reader in understanding principles or solving problems. In some cases, derivations are placed in appen- dices so as not to break up the flow of the subject matter in the text. The book is intended for a broad audience interested in molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET). It is expected that the readers will range from undergraduate, graduate, and medical students to residents, physi- cians, and scientists with backgrounds from various physical, biological, and medical specialty areas. Each chapter presents material in a straightforward man- ner that is well illustrated and explained. Because of the diverse audience for the book, certain chapters or sections of chapters will be of more interest than oth- ers to certain segments of the readership. Chapter 1 introduces the fundamental physics upon which PET imaging sys- tems is based and discusses in detail the technologies and methods used to pro- duce PET images.
The chapter starts out by reviewing the physics of positron emission and annihilation and explains how positron range and photon non- colinearity in coincidence detection place certain limits on spatial resolution.
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1 Pet: Physics, Instrumentation, And Scanners.- 2 Quantitative Assay Development for Pet.- 3 Electronic Generators.- 4 The Molecular Basis of Disease.- 5 Oncological Applications of Fdg-Pet.- 6 Positron Emission Tomography of The Heart: Methodology, Findings in the Normal and the Diseased Heart, and Clinical Applications.- 7 Molecular Imaging of Biological Processes with Pet: Evaluating Biologic Bases of Cerebral Function.
