Clinical PET and PET/CT

✍ Scribed by H. Jadvar MD, PhD, FACNM, J.A. Parker MD, PhD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 277
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

A practical manual covering the full spectrum of PET and PET/CT imaging, now in common clinical practice, this book includes images of normal variants, artifacts, and pathologic conditions. Indications for and the relative clinical value of PET in the armamentarium of diagnostic medical imaging are reviewed. The information in the book is organized to be brief, concise, easy-to-understand and readily accessed.

This book is intended for all health practitioners who need a concise reference and review of PET imaging indications, protocols and clinical applications. It will be useful to radiologists, nuclear medicine physicians, and clinicians who refer their patients to PET Centers for diagnostic imaging, including neurologists, neurosurgeons, psychiatrists, cardiologists, internists, and oncologists. Radiologic and nuclear medicine technologists, and physicians in training will also benefit from this work.

✦ Table of Contents

PET Physics and Instrumentation....Pages 1-43
PET Radiotracers....Pages 45-67
Cardiology....Pages 69-85
Neurology and Psychiatry....Pages 87-95
Oncology—Brain....Pages 97-102
Oncology—Head, Neck, and Thyroid....Pages 103-115
Oncology—Lungs....Pages 117-136
Oncology—Digestive Tract....Pages 137-151
Oncology—Pancreas and Hepatobiliary System....Pages 153-159
Oncology—Breast and Female Reproductive System....Pages 161-180
Oncology—Male Reproductive System....Pages 181-188
Oncology—Urology....Pages 189-194
Oncology—Bone and Soft Tissue Tumors....Pages 195-204
Oncology—Lymphoma....Pages 205-225
Oncology—Melanoma....Pages 227-234
Infection and Inflammation....Pages 235-242
Pediatrics....Pages 243-253
Variants and Pitfalls....Pages 255-267

✦ Subjects

Imaging / Radiology;Nuclear Medicine;Neurology;Neurosurgery;Oncology