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Edited by Ludwig E. Feinendegen, Walton W. Shreeve, William C. Eckelman, Yong-Whee Bahk, and Henry N. Wagner, Jr. 795 pp., illustrated. Berlin, Germany, Springer-Verlag, 2003. $325. ISBN 3-540-00132-8.

During the past decade, the perspectives of nuclear medicine have been totally transformed. This field is no longer only an imaging specialty that provides some functional information; it is progressively acquiring a central role in the understanding of many physiologic and pathological processes, both in research and in routine clinical practice.

This change in the field is related to such advances as the advent of whole-body positron-emission tomographic (PET) scanning and its fusion with computed tomographic (CT) scanning in routine practice, the refinement of existing technology (including the gamma camera and the methods used for uptake measurement), and the development . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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