Radiation Physics for Nuclear Medicine

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cantone, Marie Claire (Editor), Hoeschen, Christoph (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Nuclear chemistry.; Nuclear medicine.; Medical physics.; Radiation.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nuclear Medicine.; Medical and Radiation Physics.; Nuclear Chemistry.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.