Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar and Hans-Jürgen Biersack (Eds): Clinical Applications of SPECT-CT

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“Clinical Applications of SPECT-CT” is edited by Hojjat Ahmadzadehfar and Hans-Jürgen Biersack of the University Hospital in Bonn, Germany. The name of Prof. Biersack, who is known worldwide for his academic and scientific achievements, is an editorial guarantee of high quality. His “Clinical Nuclear Medicine”, edited with Leonard M. Freeman for Springer, remains one of the best reference books that has to be present in the library of a nuclear medicine department. “Clinical Applications of SPECT-CT” is a book dedicated to a field in which there are certainly a lower number of publications in comparison with those concerning PET/CT. It therefore helps fill a space still fairly empty, although there is emerging interest in this less diffuse hybrid approach that significantly improves diagnostic accuracy when using gamma emitters. …