Driven in part by the remarkable sophistication of nuclear medicine instrumentation and crease in computing power and its ready and inexpensive availability this is a relatively new yet rapidly expanding field likewise although the use of nuclear imaging for diagnosis and therapy has origins dating back almost to the pioneering work of dr g de hevesy quantitative imaging has only recently emerged as a promising approach for diagnosis and therapy of many diseases an effort has . Quantitative analysis in nuclear medicine imaging editors zaidi habib ed free preview buy this book chapter 1 presents a general overview of nuclear medicine imaging physics and instrumentation including planar scintigraphy single photon emission computed tomography spect and positron emission tomography pet nowadays patients diagnosis and therapy is rarely done without . Quantitative analysis in nuclear medicine imaging is an in depth review of single photon and pet nuclear medicine image reconstruction correction modeling and analysis techniques with a particular emphasis on quantitative imaging for both diagnostic and therapeutic ie internal radionuclide dosimetric purposes the book is highly technical and uses numerous complex and multidimensional integral differential statistical and trigonometric equations and formulas to describe a wide . Quantitative analysis in nuclear medicine imaging with 110 illustrations habib zaidi division of nuclear medicine geneva university hospital geneva ch 1211 switzerland habibzaidihcugech library of congress control number 2005931370 isbn 10 0 387 23854 9 e isbn 0 387 25444 7 isbn 13 978 0387 23854 8 printed on acid free paper 2006 springer sciencethbusiness media inc all rights