Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine
Kieran Maher and other Wikibooks contributors
An open Wikibooks textbook on the physics behind nuclear medicine: atomic structure, radioactive decay, radiation units, gamma-ray attenuation, detectors and the gamma camera.
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