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Current Practice in Nuclear Medicine. Radionuclide Brain Imaging. By D. Front, pp. x + 141, 1982 (Prentice-Hall International, New York/Hemel Hempstead), £26.00. ISBN 0–8385–8275–5

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A text devoted to radionuclide brain imaging might seem to be rather superfluous in 1983 when one sees the progress made in high resolution CT imaging and the exciting structural and even functional images coming from the new NMR devices. However, if the recommended policy of the Royal Colleges to have nuclear medicine imaging facilities in all district hospitals is followed it becomes very logical to continue routine ⁹⁹Tc^m brain scanning, which if performed carefully and interpreted by a trained doctor is capable of answering 90% of the clinical problems requiring a brain imaging study. This book goes over very basic ground and indeed could easily have been written any time between 1973 and the present.