COVER -- CONTENTS -- Part A: STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES -- TYPES OF STUDY DESIGN -- BASIC PRINCIPLES OF DATA ANALYSES: AN OVERVIEW -- COUNTING STATISTICS AND BASIC PRINCIPLE OF ROC -- NON-PARAMETRIC TESTS, MATCHMAKING AND McNEMAR IN THE COMPARISON OF DIAGNOSTIC MODALITIES -- STATISTICAL PARAMETRIC MAPPING (SPM) -- Part B: MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES -- BASIC MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS RELEVANT TO NUCLEAR MEDICINE -- FOURIER TRANSFORM AND ITS APPLICATIONS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE -- BACK PROJECTION SPECT AND FILTRATION -- CORRECTION FOR ATTENUATION, SCATTER AND PARTIAL VOLUME EFFECT IN SPECT : AN OVERVIEW -- SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY (SPECT) : ITERATIVE RECONSTRUCTION INCORPORATING DEPTH DEPENDENT RESOLUTION, ATTENUATION AND SCATTER -- BASIC PHYSICS OF POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY (PET) -- QUANTIFICATION IN SPECT & PET -- DECONVOLUTION ANALYSIS AND RENAL TRANSIT TIME PARAMETERS -- BACKGROUND SUBTRACTION IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE -- ROLE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND NEURAL NETWORKS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE -- RADIOTRACER KINETICS: BASIC PRINCIPLES -- RADIOTRACER KINETICS: APPLICATIONS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE -- ESTIMATION OF LEFT VENTRICULAR VOLUME IN NUCLEAR CARDIOLOGY -- Part C : RADIATION SAFETY -- PRINCIPLES OF RADIATION PROTECTION -- RADIATION SAFETY IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE -- RADIATION SAFETY ASPECTS IN RADIOIODINE THERAPY.