Clinical Nuclear Medicine - Hans-Jürgen Biersack, medicalheaven radiology

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H.-J. Biersack · L.M. Freeman (Eds.) Clinical Nuclear Medicine
Hans-Jürgen Biersack · Leonard M. Freeman (Eds.)
Lionel S. Zuckier · Frank Grünwald (Associate Eds.)
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
With 310 Figures in 1,232 Parts and 91 Tables
Hans-Jürgen Biersack, M.D.
Professor and Chairman
Department of Nuclear Medicine
University Hospital Bonn
Sigmund-Freud-Straße 15
D-53127 Bonn
Germany
Leonard M. Freeman, M.D.
Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Director, Dept. of Nuclear Medicine
Montefiore Medical Centre/Moses Division
111 East 210
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Street
Bronx, NY 10467
USA
ISBN 978-3-540-28025-5
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Preface
The modern era of radionuclide imaging and therapy is well into its seventh decade.
During this era, many national and international textbooks have been published in
an attempt to educate not only the practitioners of our medical discipline, but also
referring physicians and medical students. Some of the more recent large multicul-
tural texts, such as those by Ell and Ghambir, Sandler et al. and Henkin et al., provide
us with very comprehensive reference sources while some of the smaller texts totally
writtenbytwoorthreeindividuals,e.g.Mettler&GuiberteauandZiessman,O’Mal-
ley & Thrall, have achieved popularity with radiology residents and other physicians
in training.
The concept of
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
arose 3 years ago from a conversation
between the editors, who have been close friends for many years. We have always felt
that our relationship epitomizes one of the major strengths of nuclear medicine,
which is the very close ties and spirit of educational cooperation that exist between
international colleagues. We all share the same aim of doing whatever we can to opti-
mize patient care whether it be by introducing new pharmaceuticals and instru-
ments or by developing new techniques or approaches to performing our broad
spectrum of clinical procedures. Nuclear medicine physicians have almost uniformly
been willing to share their expertise at national and international meetings. The in-
ternational nuclear medicine community, unlike many other larger specialty areas,
has remained relatively small.
It was within this spirit that
Clinical Nuclear Medicine
was born. As will become
immediately evident, the chapters are almost equally split between American and
European authors. Additionally, one of the chapters was contributed by one of our
colleagues from Taiwan. A unique feature of this text is the incorporation of PET into
each organ system or disease specific chapter rather than presenting it as a separate
chapter. A considerable amount of time was spent selecting and assembling the stel-
lar cast of authors, who have graciously contributed their time, effort and, indeed,
great talent to make this text the readable, concise text that we believe it represents.
We hope that you, our readers, agree. We are most grateful to our many colleagues
and friends who share our vision.
Hans-Jürgen Biersack, MD
Leonard M. Freeman, MD
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