Nuclear Medicine Textbook

Duccio Volterrani, MD, is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine and current Director of the Nuclear Medicine Division of the University Hospital of Pisa and of the Post-Graduate Specialty School in Nuclear Medicine of the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy). He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine, and his main interests in Nuclear Medicine are: neurology, oncology, and nephro-urology.

Paola A. Erba, MD, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy). She is a member of the Committee on Infection and Inflammation of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine, and her main interests in Nuclear Medicine include: oncology, infection/inflammation; development of new radiopharmaceuticals for both diagnosis and therapy; biological markers of disease; imaging infection with new molecular imaging agents; and the development of new radioimmunoconjugates for molecular radiotherapy.

Ignasi Carriò, MD, is a Professor of Nuclear Medicine at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and Director of the Department of Nuclear Medicine at Hospital Sant Pau in Barcelona (Spain). He has been Editor-in-Chief of the European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (2004-2018). He was a Past-President of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine. He has published over 200 original articles in International peer-reviewed journals, his main interests in Nuclear Medicine focusing on the applications of radionuclide-based procedures in cardiology, neurology, oncology.

H. William Strauss, MD, is a Professor of Radiology at Cornell University's Weill School of Medicine, New York (NY, USA) and an Attending Physician Emeritus, Molecular Imaging and Therapy Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (New York). He has previously served as a Professor of Radiology and Director of Nuclear Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical (Boston, MA, 1976-1992), and Stanford School of Medicine (Stanford, CA, 1994-2001), and as Editor-in-Chief of "The Journal of Nuclear Medicine". A Past-President of the Society of Nuclear Medicine (USA), his main interests in Nuclear Medicine include: cardiology, oncology, neurology, infection/inflammation; and the development of new radiopharmaceuticals and new devices for use in nuclear medicine. He is the Author/Editor of several Nuclear Medicine books.

Giuliano Mariani, MD, is a Former Professor of Nuclear Medicine and former Director of both the Nuclear Medicine Division of the University Hospital of Pisa and of the Post-Graduate Specialty School in Nuclear Medicine of the University of Pisa (Pisa, Italy). He is a former member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association of Nuclear Medicine and former Chief-Editor of "The Journal of Nuclear Biology and Medicine" (later renamed "The Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Allied Sciences"). His main interests in Nuclear Medicine are: oncology, radioguided surgery, radionuclide therapy, and the development of new radiopharmaceuticals for diagnosis and therapy. He is the Author/Editor of several Nuclear Medicine books.