Imaging in Nuclear Medicine

1. Introduction
Augusto Giussani, Christoph Hoeschen

Part I. Basic Principles and Physics of Nuclear Medical Imaging

2. The Role of Imaging in Nuclear Medicine: The Medical Perspective
Katrine Riklund

3. Physics of Imaging in Nuclear Medicine
Andrej Studen

4. Tomographic and Hybrid Imaging in Nuclear Medicine
Axel Martinez-Möller

5. Perspectives in Nuclear Medicine Tomography: A Physicist’s Point of View
Stephan Walrand, François Jamar

Part II. Data Acquisition and Image Processing

6. Reconstruction Algorithms and Scanning Geometries in Tomographic Imaging
Oleg Tischenko, Christoph Hoeschen

7. Advances in SPECT Image Reconstruction
Gernot Ebel, Timo Aspelmeier

8. Noise Reduction
Oleg Tischenko, Christoph Hoeschen

9. New Approaches to Quality Assurance
Hugo las Heras Gala

Part III. New Concepts in Nuclear Medical Imaging

10. The EURATOM FP7 Collaborative Project MADEIRA
Augusto Giussani, Marcus Söderberg

11. Image Magnification with PET Insert Probe
Andrej Studen

Part IV. Optimization of Nuclear Medical Imaging

12. Rules of the Thumb
Christoph Hoeschen

Keywords: Medicine & Public Health, Nuclear Medicine, Imaging / Radiology, Medical and Radiation Physics