by Richard L. Wahl
Principles and Practice of Positron Emission Tomography thoroughly explains the principles, clinical applications, and economic aspects of positron emission tomography today, enabling readers to make well-informed decisions.
Principles and Practice of Positron Emission Tomography covers :
- Extensive discussions of current oncologic, neurologic, psychiatric, and cardiac applications
- Preview of emerging applications of PET in gene therapy, nephrology, pediatrics
- Infection/inflammation imaging, skeletal imaging, and pulmonary medicine
Contents
- Production of Radionuclides for PET
- Chemistry
- Instrumentation
- Data Analysis and Imaging Processing
- Oncologic Applications
- Principles of Cancer Imaging with Fluorodeoxyglucose
- Normal Variants in FDG PET Imaging
- Central Nervous System
- Head, Neck, and Thyroid
- Lung
- Lymphoma
- Melanoma
- Breast
- Esophagus
- Colorectal, Pancreatic, and Genitourinary
- Gynecologic and Genitourinary
- Skeletal and Soft Tissue
- Monitoring Treatment Response
- Combined PET/CT Imaging
- Neurologic Applications
- Psychiatric Disorders
- Cardiac Applications
- Myocardial Perfusion
- Myocardial Viability
- Oxidative Metabolism and Cardiac Efficiency
- Myocardial Neurotransmitter Imaging
- Infection and Inflammation
- Pediatrics
- PET and Drug Development
- Imaging Gene Expression
Index
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