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Molecular Imaging: Principles and Practice R. Weissleder, B.D. Ross, A. Rehemtulla, and S.S. Gambhir Shelton, CT: People's Medical Publishing House-USA, 2010, 1357 pages, $189
The field of molecular imaging has seen spectacular advances in chemistry, engineering, and biochemical applications in recent years. Comprehensive molecular imaging centers have been established all over the world, and new research workers, as well as students, have been drawn into this multidisciplinary field, creating a compelling need for a textbook to define it and outline the underlying science, techniques, and clinical applications. In an effort to meet this need, 167 leaders in molecular imaging have contributed the 76 chapters of this book, in which a large amount of information has been logically organized to provide the most authoritative and effective resource currently...