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... rst edition of “Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine rapid progress has occurred in the fi eld of nuclear medicine imaging. Multimodality imaging, image fusion and molecular imaging techniques are being ... and multi-detector geometry. New hybrid devices were manufactured for both single photon and coin- cidence imaging, bringing the advantages of PET to the general nuclear medicine clinic. These ... 13. Pediatric nuclear medicine has special needs, because of the size and age of the patients. A selec- tion of topics is presented in Chap. 14. 1.4 Basics of Diagnostic Nuclear Medicine The...

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... full- time practice of nuclear medicine. In many hospitals, a nuclear radiologist” interprets nuclear medicine images as well as radiographs. There is increasing integration of nuclear medicine within ... uses of 86 A Personal History of Nuclear Medicine Figure 49 Professor Ludwig Feinendegen, a pioneer in nuclear medicine from Germany who often visited nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins. Figure ... of gene and other arrays of data, interpreted together with in vivo molecular imaging. The increasing complexity of nuclear medicine procedures warrants the full time efforts of full time nuclear...