Introduction to Nuclear Medicine for Trainees in Imaging and Imaging Sciences

This book represents a concise and easily referred guide to be used when the need arises, so that trainees in radiology facing a Nuclear Medicine matter can cope with the same and understand how to report correctly, for instance, their first bone scan or first renogram and give them briefly the underlying physiology. The sections of the volume are based on radiopharmaceuticals which enables the reader to understand the physiology underpinning the handling of the radiopharmaceuticals and why, therefore, they are applied to the imaging tests for which they are used. This setting will surely help radiological trainees to quickly acquire a grasp of the essentials of nuclear medicine and enable them to maximise the value of the period they spend training in nuclear medicine as part of their training. Main goal of the book is to let understand the molecular structure and basic physiology of a radiopharmaceutical; leading to an understanding of why and how the radiopharmaceutical works in its application to different organ systems; leading to basic reporting skills and an understanding of the mistakes being made in the report; understanding the radiopharmaceutical kinetics and how they are used to quantify physiological variables in disease. The book represents a very useful tool to trainees intending to specialise in nuclear medicine whether as nuclear medicine physicians or radionuclide radiologists.