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Here's the completely revised and updated 4th Edition of the standard resource for nuclear medicine imaging. Arranged around specific organ systems, it provides comprehensive, yet practical explorations of physics, instrumentation, quality control, and legal requirements. New and expanded coverage includes PET scanning, digitaland multiheaded SPECT cameras, tumour imaging agents, cardiovascular nuclear medicine, pathologic entities, computer software and hardware, and more. The 4th Edition provides over 540 high-quality illustrations--60% more than the last edition. A new chapter on Approach to Image Interpretation gives useful advice for analysing images in a conference, consultation, or examination. A new Pearls and Pitfalls section in each chapter offers expert advice on how to avoid making common imaging errors. Updated and expanded clinical images illustrate the classic image presentations and appearances of commonly encountered diseases and abnormalities. A greater number of differential diagnosis tables appear throughout the text.