Chapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Basic concepts and classification of nuclear medicine 1.2 Principle of functional imaging in nuclear medicine and comparison with other imagitechniques 1.3 The history and present situation of nuclear medicine Chapter 2 Physical Basics of Nuclear Medicine 2.1 Atomic nucleus 2.2 Radionuclides 2.3 Nuclear decay 2.4 Interaction of radioactive ray with matter 2.5 Nuclear reactions Chapter 3 Nuclear Medicine Imaging Devices 3.1 Gamma camera and SPECT systems 3.2 PET systems 3.3 Non-Imaging detectors and counters Chapter 4 Radiopharmaceuticals 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Manufacture of radionuclide for radiopharmaceutical 4.3 Radio pharmaceuticals 4.4 Quality control 4.5 Tendency of radio pharmaceutical Chapter 5 Radiation Protection and Safety in Nuclear Medicine 5.1 Dose quantities and units 5.2 The principles of radiation protection 5.3 Radiation safety of the patients 5.4 Radiation protection and safety of the public 5.5 Radiation protection and safety of occupational workers Chapter 6 In Vitro Immunoassay 6.1 Radioimmunoassay 6.2 Immunoradiometric assay 6.3 Non-radiolabeled immunoassy 6.4 Analytical quality control in radioanalytical laboratories 6.5 The clinical application of in vitro immunoassay Chapter 7 Molecular Imaging 7.1 Conception and principle of molecular imaging 7.2 Contents of molecular imaging 7.3 Multimodality imaging 7.4 Application of molecular imaging Chapter 8 Nuclear Neurology 8.1 Introduction 8.2 Cerebral blood flow perfusion tomography and local cerebral blood flow measurement 8.3 Cerebral metabolic imaging 8.4 Neuroreceptor imaging 8.5 Radionuclide cerebrovascular imaging 8.6 Cerebrospinal fluid imaging Chapter 9 Endocrine System 9.1 Thyroid 9.2 Parathyroid 9.3 Adrenal medullary imaging Chapter 10 Cardiovascular System 10.1 Myocardial perfusion imaging 10.2 Assessment of ventricular function 10.3 Heart failure and assessment of viability Chapter 11 Pulmonary Imaging 11.1 Pulmonary ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy 11.2 Clinical applications 11.3 Other imaging methods Chapter 12 Gastrointestinal System 12.1 Gastrointestinal bleeding scintigraphy 12.2 Heterotopic gastric mueosa seintigraphy 12.3 Gastroesophageal reflux scintigraphy 12.4 Gastric emptying scintigraphy 12.5 99mTe-labelled red blood cells liver seintigraphy 12.6 Liver and spleen colloid imaging 12.7 Salivary gland imaging 12.8 Urea breath test for Helicobacter pylori 12.9 Hepatobiliary dynamic imaging Chapter 13 Urinary System 13.1 Renal anatomy 13.2 Function 13.3 Renal radiopharmaceutieals 13.4 Dynamic renal imaging techniques 13.5 Measuring renal function : effective renal plasma flow (REPF) and glomerular filtrationrate (GFR) 13.6 Renal cortical imaging 13.7 Radionuclide eystography 13.8 Clinical applications of renal seintigraphy Chapter 14 Skeletal System 14.1 Introduction 14.2 Anatomy and physiology 14.3 The bone scan 14.4 The joint scan 14.5 Normal appearances 14.6 Abnormal bone and joint imaging 14.7 Extra skeletal imaging agent concentration 14.8 Clinical applications of bone and joint imaging Chapter 15 Hematology and Iymphatic System 15.1 Bone marrow scintigraphy 15.2 Spleen imaging 15.3 Lymphoscintigraphy Chapter 16 Tumor Imaging 16.1 Introduction 16.2 JSF-FDG PET/CT imaging 16.3 Tumor imaging with other positron-emitting agents but ISF-FDG 16.4 SPECT and SPECT/CT imaging in tumor Chapter 17 Inflammation Imaging 17.1 Gallium-67 citrate scan 17.2 Radiolabeled leukocytes scan 17.3 18F-FDG PET/CT Chapter 18 Radionuclide Therapy 18.1 Biological basis of radionuclide therapy 18.2 Treatment in hyperthyroidism with 131I 18.3 Treatment for solitary toxic nodule (Plummer's Disease) with 131I 18.4 Treatment for well-differentiated thyroid carcinoma with 1311 18.5 Radionuclide therapy of malignant bone metastases 18.6 32p Therapy in polycythemia vera and essential thrombocythemia 18.7 Radionuclide applicator therapy Chapter 19 Role of ISF-FDG PET/CT in Pediatric Oncology 19.1 Brief introduction of pediatric malignant tumor 19.2 Clinical application of 18F-FDG PET/CT in pediatric malignant tumor 19.3 Radiation safety of 18F-FDG PET/CT in children