**Meet the editor**

Ali Gholamrezanezhad, MD, specialist of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging from Tehran University of Medical Sciences and Fellow of the European Board on Nuclear Medicine (FEBNM) is the author of more than 60 publications in the field of nuclear medicine. He currently is involved in research activities in department of nuclear medicine at Johns Hopkins University. He has published in almost all nuclear medicine journals, including Journal of Nuclear Medicine, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Clinical Nuclear Medicine, Journal of Nuclear Cardiology, Journal of Nuclear Medicine technology, Nuclear Medicine Communications, Nucklearmedizine, Annals of Nuclear Medicine, Hellenic Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Medicine and Biology, Revista Espanola de Medicina Nucleare, and Iranian Journal of Nuclear Medicine. He serves as a reviewer or member of editorial board for a number of international journals, such as Rare Tumors, Clinical Neurology and Neurosurgery, Anatolian Journal of Cardiology.

Contents

**Preface IX** 

Chapter 3 **Medical Cyclotron 47**  Reina A. Jimenez V

Byeong-Cheol Ahn

Chapter 1 **Physiologic and False Positive Pathologic** 

Ernesto Amato, Alfredo Campennì,

Chapter 5 **Nuclear Medicine in Musculoskeletal Disorders:** 

Noelia Medina-Gálvez and Teresa Pedraz

**Metrology in Nuclear Medicine 137** 

**Nuclear Medicine Imaging Modalities 199** 

Merissa N. Zeman, Garrett M. Carpenter and Peter J. H. Scott

**Patients with Differentiated Thyroid Cancer 231** 

Chapter 7 **Breast Cancer: Radioimmunoscintigraphy and Radioimmunotherapy 165**  Mojtaba Salouti and Zahra Heidari

Chapter 9 **Post-Therapeutic I-131 Whole Body Scan in** 

Ho-Chun Song and Ari Chong

**Clinical Approach 97** 

Chapter 6 **Role of the Radionuclide** 

Sahagia Maria

Chapter 8 **Diagnosis of Dementia Using** 

**Uptakes on Radioiodine Whole Body Scan 1** 

Chapter 2 **Internal Radiation Dosimetry: Models and Applications 25** 

Chapter 4 **Radionuclide Infection Imaging: Conventional to Hybrid 73**  Muhammad Umar Khan and Muhammad Sharjeel Usmani

Astrid Herberg, Fabio Minutoli and Sergio Baldari
