Cumali Aktolun - Nuclear Oncology

Cumali Aktolun, MD, MSc

Visiting Professor

Department of Radiology

Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford, School of Medicine

Stanford University

Palo Alto, California

Stanley J. Goldsmith, MD

Professor

Department of Radiology and Medicine

Sanford and Joan Weill College of Medicine of Cornell University

Director-Emeritus

Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center

New York, New York

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Nuclear oncology (Aktolun)

Nuclear oncology / [edited by] Cumali Aktolun, Stanley J. Goldsmith.

p. ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4511-8685-7 (alk. paper) ISBN 1-4511-8685-1 (alk. paper)

I. Aktolun, C. (Cumali), 1961- editor. II. Goldsmith, Stanley J., editor. III. Title.

[DNLM: 1. Neoplasmsradionuclide imaging. 2. Neoplasmsradiotherapy. 3. Radionuclide Imagingmethods. 4. Radiotherapymethods.QZ 241]

RC270.3.R35

616.99407575dc23

2014009474

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To my wife, Miriam Goldsmith, who dedicated her life to our family, to my professional goals, and to me. Her love made possible the life that I have been fortunate enough to have lived.
Stanley J. Goldsmith, MD

To Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of Republic of Turkey, who established the foundations of modern scientific education in my country.
Cumali Aktolun, MD, MSc