Physiological Measurement with Radionuclides in Clinical Practice

ISBN-13: 9780192619945 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 320 str.

A. M. Peters; M. J. Myers; Myers Peters

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As functional imaging continues to become increasingly important to ev eryday clinical practice, clinicians need to know more about the quant itative aspects of physiology and pathophysiology. In straightforward language for the clinician, this book integrates the principles and ma thematics of measurement with the physiological systems to which the q uantitative problems are applied. Although there is an emphasis on the clinical measurement of radionuclides and quantitative procedures in nuclear medicine, this book has been written with all clinicians in mi nd. Starting from basic mathematics, the book covers the measurement o f blood flow, the peripheral circulation and microvascular solute tran sfer, the pharmacokinetics of agenda routinely used in nuclear medicin e as well as scintillation detectors, data processing and quantificati on. In separate chapters measurement in the heart, lung, gastro-intest inal tract, liver, spleen, genitourinary tract and the brain are discu ssed.