Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine (Second Edition)

Professor Habib Zaidi (www.pinlab.ch) is Chief physicist and head of the PET Instrumentation & Neuroimaging Laboratory at Geneva University Hospital and faculty member at the medical school of Geneva University. He is also a Professor of Medical Physics at the University of Groningen (Netherlands), Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics and Molecular Imaging at the University of Southern Denmark, Adjunct Professor of Medical Physics at Shahid Beheshti University and visiting Professor at Tehran University of Medical Sciences. He is actively involved in developing imaging solutions for cutting-edge interdisciplinary biomedical research and clinical diagnosis in addition to lecturing undergraduate and postgraduate courses on medical physics and medical imaging. Prof. Zaidi’s academic accomplishments in the area of quantitative PET imaging have been well recognized by his peers and by the medical imaging community at large since he is a recipient of many awards and distinctions. Prof. Zaidi has been an invited speaker of over 160 keynote lectures and talks at an International level, has authored over 750 publications, including 350 peer-reviewed journal articles in prominent journals (ISI-h index=52/67 Web of Science™/Google scholar, >16 600+ citations as of March 2022), 340 conference proceedings and 41 book chapters and is the editor of four textbooks on Therapeutic Applications of Monte Carlo Calculations in Nuclear Medicine, Quantitative Analysis in Nuclear Medicine Imaging, Molecular Imaging of Small Animals and Computational anatomical animal models.