Initial chapters set the scene by considering the role of imaging in nuclear medicine from the medical perspective and discussing the implications of novel agents and applications for imaging the physics at the basis of the most modern imaging systems is described and the reader is introduced to the latest advances in image reconstruction and noise correction various novel concepts are then discussed including those developed within the framework of the euratom fp7 madeira research . This volume addresses a wide range of issues in the field of nuclear medicine imaging with an emphasis on the latest research findings initial chapters set the scene by considering the role of imaging in nuclear medicine from the medical perspective and discussing the implications of novel agents and applications for imaging. Imaging in nuclear medicine occupies a niche that would appeal to medical physicists developing an interest in the specialty as well as practicing nuclear medicine physicians who would like to better understand the basis of the most recent developments in image processing and reconstruction reviewed by r petter tonseth md article history published online july 2014 published in print . Hybrid imaging in conventional nuclear medicine eanm technologists guide of a series of lead cones with a small hole at the apex facing the imaged object with these pinholes the size of the image will depend on the distance from the object to the pinhole which is not the case for parallel hole collimators