Best Nuclear Medicine Books

I have talked before of medical imaging books and MRI books. Today I make a compilation of Nuclear Medicine books which I have used so far:

Emission Tomography: The Fundamentals of PET and SPECT. Miles N. Wernick and John N. Aarsvold.
http://www.amazon.com/Emission-Tomography-The-Fundamentals-SPECT/dp/0127444823

 

Positron Emission Tomography: Basic Sciences. Dale L. Bailey, David W. Townsend, Peter E. Valk and Michael N. Maisey.
http://www.amazon.com/Positron-Emission-Tomography-Basic-Sciences/dp/1852337982/ 

Physics in Nuclear Medicine. Simon R. Cherry, James Sorenson, Michael Phelps.

http://www.amazon.com/Physics-Nuclear-Medicine-Simon-Cherry/dp/072168341X/

 

Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Medicine Imaging. Habib Zaidi.

http://www.amazon.com/Quantitative-Analysis-Nuclear-Medicine-Imaging/dp/0387238549

 

 Do you know any other good books?

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Best Medical Imaging Book

A great book is a precious help. I have several medical imaging books, which I use to cross information. General medical imaging books which focus on the physics and engineering principles are my favorites. Here is some of them:

Medical Imaging Physics. William Hendee and E. Russel Ritenour.
http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Imaging-Physics-William-Hendee/dp/0471382264

Medical Imaging Signals and Systems. Jerry Prince and Jonathan Links.
http://www.amazon.com/Medical-Imaging-Signals-Systems-Prince/dp/0130653535

The Essential Physics of Medical Imaging. J. Bushberg, J. Seibert, E. Leidholdt Jr., J. Boone.
http://www.amazon.com/Essential-Physics-Medical-Imaging-Third/dp/0781780578

These two are also quite famous and used, but I have personally never used them:

Introduction to Medical Imaging: Physics, Engineering and Clinical Applications. N. Smith and A. Webb.
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Medical-Imaging-Engineering-Applications/dp/0521190657

Fundamentals of Medical Imaging. Paul Suetens.
http://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Medical-Imaging-Paul-Suetens/dp/0521519152

Do you know any other good books?

Simulation for Nuclear Medicine

Simulation is a very important tool in medical imaging, as I already wrote in a previous post. In nuclear medicine, Monte-Carlo simulation is the most used method to simulate data. There  are  several  Monte-Carlo packages, which vary in precision and accuracy of  the simulated effects and computational demand.  Some research groups devised their own Monte-Carlo computer codes, built on top of a general-purpose code, which serves as core layer and application-specific modules are constructed in a hierarchical layer architecture.

PET-EGS based on EGS4 (Electron Gamma Shower 4) http://irs.inms.nrc.ca/research/imaging/
GATE (Geant4 Application for Tomographic Emission) http://www.opengatecollaboration.org/

Dedicated packages that have supported PET and/or SPECT research are:
SimSET (Simulation System for Emission Tomography)http://depts.washington.edu/simset/html/user_guide/user_guide_index.html
SORTEO (Simulation Of Realistic Tridimensional Emitting Objects) http://sorteo.cermep.fr/
PeneloPET (PENetration and Energy LOss of PET) http://nuclear.fis.ucm.es/penelopet/

GATE is one of the most famous packages and the paper published by the authors is here:
http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9155/49/19/007/

Do you recommend other packages?