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Nuclear Medicine and PET/CT Technology and Techniques P.E. Christian and K.M. Waterstram-Rich, eds. St. Louis, MO: Mosby, 2012, 736 pages, $144
Since its first edition in 1981, this publication has been valued as a comprehensive and up-to-date textbook on all topics within nuclear medicine. In a field that changes as rapidly as ours, it is a significant challenge to maintain that status. We are fortunate that the editors of this text have proven, time and again, to be up to that challenge.
The most significant addition to this seventh edition is chapter 12, on the principles of MRI, coinciding with the commercial availability of PET/MRI scanners. (We can only hope that the book's title does not get lengthened yet again.) The authors of the MRI chapter are inexplicably not listed as contributors, so it is impossible to evaluate the chapter with consideration of their background. I find that they have done a pretty good job explaining the concepts of MRI at the atomic level. Pulse sequences are addressed only briefly, and the method by which the MRI signal is...