Full Description
Covering the entire spectrum of this fast-changing field, Diagnostic Imaging: Nuclear Medicine, Fourth Edition, is an invaluable, everyday resource for nuclear medicine physicians, general radiologists, and trainees-anyone who requires an easily accessible, highly visual reference on today's rapidly changing nuclear medicine therapies. Drs. Jennifer Schroeder, Joanna R. Fair, and a team of new and returning highly specialized authors provide up-to-date information in concise yet detailed chapters to help you make informed decisions at the point of care. They address the most appropriate nuclear medicine options available to answer specific clinical questions within the framework of all imaging modalities, making this edition a useful learning tool as well as a handy reference for daily practice.
Reflects recent advances in the field with information on new FDA-approved imaging agents, new therapeutic agents, updates to available therapies and procedures with new interval data and guidelines, new imaging protocols, including perfusion-only examinations for evaluation of pulmonary embolisms, and more
Features new and expanded information throughout, including therapy for pheochromocytoma and paraganglioma, treatment of progressive metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer, benign and malignant thyroid disease, sentinel node mapping, lymphedema, and pediatric nuclear imaging
Covers the physics behind nuclear medicine with safety considerations for both patients and radiologists with new material on radiopharmaceutical IV infiltration
Contains new chapters on such topics as thyroid incidentaloma, fever of unknown origin, malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumor, cancer of unknown primary, paraneoplastic syndrome, thyroiditis, and many more
Features 2,000+ high-quality print images (with an additional 500+ images in the included eBook), many of which are new or updated, including pediatric imaging, oncologic imaging, radiologic images, full-color medical illustrations, and 3D renderings
Uses bulleted, succinct text and highly templated chapters to help you make informed decisions at the point of care
Includes an eBook that allows you access to everything in the print version as well as additional images, text, and references, with the ability to search, customize your content, make notes and highlights, and have content read aloud; additional digital ancillary content may publish up to 6 weeks following the publication date
Contents
SECTION 1: CARDIAC
INTRODUCTION
FUNCTION AND CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE
CARDIOMYOPATHY
INFECTION
SECTION 2: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
INTRODUCTION
CEREBROSPINAL FLUID
NEURODEGENERATION
INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION
BRAIN PERFUSION
SECTION 3: GASTROINTESTINAL
INTRODUCTION
HEPATOBILIARY
GASTROINTESTINAL
INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION
SPLEEN
SECTION 4: LYMPHATIC AND VASCULAR
INTRODUCTION
LYMPHATIC
VASCULAR
SECTION 5: MUSCULOSKELETAL
INTRODUCTION
BONE TUMORS
BONE DYSPLASIAS
BONE MINERAL DENSITY
INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION
METABOLIC DISEASE
TRAUMA
VASCULAR
SECTION 6: THYROID AND PARATHYROID
INTRODUCTION
THYROID
PARATHYROID
SECTION 7: THORACIC
INTRODUCTION
INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION
LUNG PERFUSION AND VENTILATION
SECTION 8: URINARY TRACT
INTRODUCTION
INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION
RENAL FUNCTION
SECTION 9: PEDIATRICS
INTRODUCTION
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
THYROID
GASTROINTESTINAL
HEPATOBILIARY
RENAL
INFECTION AND INFLAMMATION
MUSCULOSKELETAL
SECTION 10: MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11: ONCOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
BREAST
CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM
CUTANEOUS
GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT
HEAD AND NECK
HEPATOBILIARY
LYMPHOMA
MUSCULOSKELETAL
NEUROENDOCRINE
PANCREAS
REPRODUCTIVE ORGANS
THORACIC
THYROID
URINARY TRACT
PEDIATRICS
OTHER
SECTION 12: NUCLEAR MEDICINE THERAPY
INTRODUCTION
THYROID THERAPY
SOLID TUMOR THERAPY
BONE TUMOR THERAPY
SECTION 13: PHYSICS
SECTION 14: SAFETY
MEDICAL USE OF BYPRODUCT MATERIAL
STANDARDS FOR PROTECTION AGAINST RADIATION
TRANSPORTATION OF BYPRODUCT MATERIALS
