Basic Sciences of Nuclear Medicine

420 Pages·2011·9.507 MB·English

by  G. S. Pant (auth.), Magdy M. Khalil (eds.)

Basic Sciences of Nuclear Medicine
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Magdy M. Khalil (Ed.)
Basic Sciences of Nuclear
Medicine
MagdyM.Khalil
ImperialCollegeLondon
HammersmithCampus
BiologicalImagingCentre
DuCaneRoad
W120NNLondon
UnitedKingdom
[email protected]
ISBN978-3-540-85961-1 e-ISBN978-3-540-85962-8
DOI10.1007/978-3-540-85962-8
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I dedicate this book to my parents
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(76)
“... and over every lord of knowledge, there is ONE more knowing”
Yousef (12:76)
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Acknowledgment
Thanks to my God without him nothing can come into existence. I would like to
thankmyparentswhotaughtmethepatiencetoachievewhatIplannedtodo.Special
thanksalsogotomywife,littledaughterandsonwhowereadrivingforceforthis
project.IamgratefultomycolleaguesinDepartmentofNuclearMedicineatKuwait
Universityfortheirsupportandencouragement,namely,Prof.Elgazzar,Prof.Gaber
Ziada, Dr. Mohamed Sakr, Dr. A.M. Omar, Dr. Jehan Elshammary, Mrs. Heba
Essam,Mr.JunaidandMr.AymanTaha.ManythanksalsotoProf.MelvynMeyer
for his comments and suggestions, Drs. Willy Gsell, Jordi Lopez Tremoleda and
MarzenaWylezinska-Arridge,MRC/CSC,ImperialCollegeLondon,Hammersmith
campus, UK. Last but not least would like to thank Sayed and Moustafa Khalil for
theirkindnessandindispensiblebrotherhood.
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