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This book is intended primarily for radiographers and nuclear medicine technologists who work with single photon emission computed tomography/computed tomography (SPECT/CT), but the book will be of value to other professionals within medical imaging. The intention of this book is to give a practical insight to SPECT/CT, to outline some of its uses, and also to explain how some of the more common procedures are undertaken. A fairly large amount of CT and CT-related material has been included because it is not uncommon for personnel working within nuclear medicine to have limited knowledge and experience of this modality. Purposefully we have not included a tremendous amount of information on nuclear medicine, so if the reader is novice to this field, they should consider reading a more general book about nuclear medicine alongside this text.
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Hogg, P. (2013). Introduction. In: Jones, D., Hogg, P., Seeram, E. (eds) Practical SPECT/CT in Nuclear Medicine. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4703-9_1
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