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Positron Emission Tomography
Dale L Bailey, David W Townsend,
Peter E Valk and Michael N Maisey (Eds)
Positron
Emission
Tomography
Basic Sciences
Dale L Bailey PhD, ARCP (London), FIPEM, MACPSEM
Principal Physicist, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital,
St Leonards, Australia;
Senior Lecturer, School of Medical Radiation Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney,
Australia;
Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
David W Townsend BSc, PhD, PD
Director, Cancer Imaging and Tracer Development Program, The University of Tennessee
Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA
†
Peter E Valk (
†
Deceased) MB, BS, FRACP
Northern California PET Imaging Center, Sacramento, CA, USA
Michael N Maisey MD, BSc, FRCP, FRCR
Professor Emeritus, Department of Radiological Sciences, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Clinical
PET Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust, London, UK
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Positron emission tomography : basic sciences
1. Tomography, Emission
I. Bailey, Dale L.
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Positron emission tomography: basic sciences / Dale L. Bailey … [et al.], (eds).
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-85233-798-2 (alk. paper)
1. Tomography, Emission. I. Bailey, Dale L.
RC78.7.T62 P688 2004
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Preface
In 2003 we published
Positron Emission Tomography: Basic Science and Clinical Practice
.
The aim of that book was to address what we perceived of as a lack, at the time, of a
comprehensive contemporary reference work on the rapidly expanding area of positron
emission imaging. The scope was intentionally wide. The original proposal for a 350 page
book turned into a nearly 900 page volume.
This book,
Positron Emission Tomography: Basic Sciences
, is a selected and updated
version of the non-clinical chapters from the original book. In addition, a number of
new chapters have been added which address the role of PET today for the scientist
currently working in or entering this rapidly expanding area. The audience that this is
intended for is the scientist, engineer, medical graduate or student who wants to learn
more about the science of PET. Many of the chapters have been updated from the origi-
nal to reflect how rapidly the technology underpinning PET is changing.
The following diagram encapsulates much of what is required in understanding the
science of PET. It is taken from an introduction by Professor Terry Jones to a book of the
proceedings from a PET neuroscience conference in the mid-1990s. It is the intention of
this book to deal with the majority of these topics and to produce a comprehensive
“science of PET” textbook which is more focussed and manageable than the original
volume. We hope this book will be of use to you.
Finally, we are sad to report that the principal editor of the original work, Peter E Valk,
MB
,
BS
,
FRACP
, passed away in December 2003. Peter was a great friend and outstanding
advocate for, and practitioner of, nuclear medicine and PET. He will be greatly missed by
his many colleagues and friends everywhere. We are indeed fortunate that Peter left us
with a truly wonderful book on PET to preserve his memory and not let us forget the
debt that we owe him for the leading role he played in bringing PET into clinical patient
care.
Dale L Bailey
David W Townsend
Michael N Maisey
Sydney, Knoxville, London
March 2004
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