Molecular Anatomic Imaging focuses sharply on clinical PET-CT and SPECT-CT examinations, omitting lengthy physics discussions, and is now strictly disease oriented.

Features:

• More than 1,200 illustrations document the use of integrated imaging and provide very useful reference material for interpreting integrated imaging studies
• A bound-in DVD contains over 80 cases to be viewed in three orthogonal planes and different CT windows organized as reference and self-assessment files
• The cases provide excellent training and self-assessment material

Contents

Basic Aspects of PET and SPECT Integrated with CT Imaging

• Introduction
• Radiation Sources for Emission Scanning: Positron and Gamma Emission
• Basics of PET Scanning
• Basics of SPECT Scanning: Emission and Transmission
• Design Criteria for PET Scanners: What Is Important and Why?
• Basics of CT Scanning and Issues Relevant to Integrated Imaging
• CT-Based Attenuation Correction for PET-CT Scanners
• CT-Based Attenuation Correction for SPECT
• Radiation Doses and Radiation Protection
• Image Coregistration and Coregistered Image Rendering
• Quantifying PET
• Guantifying SPECT
• A Primer in Compartment Modeling

Making PET, PET-CT, and SPECT-CT a Clinical Reality

• Radiopharmaceuticals for Clinical PET, PET-CT, and SPECT-CT Imaging
• PET Radiopharmaceuticals: Fluorinated Compounds
• PET Radiopharmaceuticals: Perfusion Compounds [¹³N]Ammonia, [¹⁵O]Water, [⁸²RB]Rubidium and Other Generator Products of Clinical Relevance
• ¹¹C-Based PET-Radiopharmaceuticals of Clinical Value
• SPECT Radiopharmaceuticals for Perfusion Imaging and Tumor and Inflammation Localization
• PET and PET-CT Imaging Protocols
• SPECT and SPECT-CT Imaging Protocols

Clinical PET- and SPECT-CT of the Brain

• The Normal Brain Scan
• Brain Tumors: Astrocytoma, Oligodendroglioma and Glioblastoma Images with PET and SPECT
• Brain Tumors: Other Primary Tumors, Metastases and Radiation Injury Imaged with PET and SPECT
• Imaging of Cerebral Infection with PET
• Epilepsy Imaged with PET and SPECT
• PET Imaging in Dementias and Extrapyramidal Disorders
• PET Imaging in Cerebrovascular Disease

Clinical PET and Integrated Modality Imaging of the Heart

• The Normal Heart Scan: PET and SPECT
• Coronary Artery Disease: Perfusion with PET and SPECT
• Coronary Artery Disease: Tissue Viability and Perfusion
• PET and SPECT in Other Cardiac Diseases
• Integrated SPECT-CT and PET-CT in Cardiac Imaging

Clinical PET-CT and SPECT-CT in Body Oncology

• PET-CT and SPECT-CT Body Scans: Artifacts, Normal Variants, Pitfalls, and Findings of Uncertain Pathologic Relevance
• FDG-PET-CT in Head and Neck Cancer
• Sentinel Node Imaging in Head and Neck Tumors
• SPECT-CT and PET-CT of Tumors with an Unknown Primary
• Thyroid Cancer Imaging with PET and SPECT
• PET and PET-CT on Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
• PET and PET-CT of Small Cell Lung Cancer
• PET and PET-CT of Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
• PET and PET-CT of Esophageal and Gastric Cancers
• PET and PET-CT of the Liver and Pancreas
• PET-CT and SPECT-CT of Other Gastrointestinal Tumors: Somatostatin Receptor-Positive and Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors
• PET and PET-CT of Colorectal and Anal Carcinoma
• PET and PET-CT in Breast Carcinoma li>SPECT-CT Imaging of Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer
• PET and PET-CT in Kidney Tumors and Bladder Cancer
• PET and PET-CT of Testicular Cancer
• PET-CT and SPECT-CT in Prostate Cancer
• PET and PET-CT of Tumors of the Female Genital Tract
• PET-CT and SPECT-CT of Malignant Bone Tumors
• PET-CT and SPECT-CT of Bone Metastases
• PET and PET-CT in Soft Tissue Sarcomas
• PET-CT and SPECT-CT of Malignant Melanoma
• PET and SPECT-CT in Lymphoma
• PET and PET-CT in Multiple Myeloma
• PET and PET-CT in Radiation Treatment Planning

Clinical PET-CT and SPECT-CT Imaging of Inflammation in the Body

• Physiological Basis of Inflammation Imaging
• Soft Tissue Infections: PET-CT and SPECT-CT Imaging
• Musculoskeletal Infections: PET-CT and SPECT-CT Imaging
• Infections in Patients with Metallic Implants: PET-CT and SPECT-CT Imaging
• Rheumatologic Disease: Imaging with PET-CT and SPECT-CT

Clinical PET-CT and SPECT-CT: Miscellaneous and Pediatric Applications

• SPECT and PET in Benign Thyroid and Parathyroid Disease
• Integrated SPECT-CT Imaging in Pulmonary Thromboembolism
• PET-CT and SPECT-CT of Benign Bone Tumors
• Special Considerations in Pediatric PET-CT and SPECT-CT Imaging
• PET-CT and SPECT-CT in Pediatric Tumors and Infections
• PET-CT and SPECT-CT in Non-Neoplastic, Noninflammatory Pediatric Diseases

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