基本説明
放射線科と核医学の専門家向PET-CTの臨床解説。
Provides a powerful fusion of imaging enabling the examination of both anatomy and metabolic function. Written with a disease-oriented approach PET-CT examines understanding, using, and interpreting PET-CT imaging in clinical practice. Co-authored by experts in both PET and CT scans, this text yields a balance between an integrated review of this new imaging modality, while still examining through comprehensive and evidence-based coverage. This will also include all clinical entities for which PET-CT can be utilized in today’s modern practice.
Full Description
Positron Emission Tomography Computed TomographyApproach offers Radiologists and Nuclear Medicine specialists a thorough understanding of the clinical application of PET-CT-a groundbreaking modality that provides a powerful fusion of imaging anatomy and metabolic function. Written with a disease-oriented approach, PET-CT examines understanding, using, and interpreting PET-CT imaging in clinical practice. Co-authored by experts in both PET and CT imaging, this text serves as an integrated review of the practical aspects of this new imaging modality while providing comprehensive and evidence-based coverage. This volume covers all clinical entities for which PET-CT can be utilized in today's modern practice.Using an integrated disease-oriented approach, PET-CT reviews:the diagnostic settings in which PET-CT will prove most valuableliterature-based evidence for utility, applications, and limitations to each diseaseintegrated discussion of the CT findings that will bear on the PET interpretation and vice versa"next steps" in the clinical evaluation of a patient (i.e., additional imaging studies indicated)Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography also includes a CD packed with every image from the book. With over 340 high resolution photos this makes a perfect addition to both in-depth study and PowerPoint slide presentations.
Contents
Preface. Clinical PET/CT in the brain. PET/CT in GYN Malignancies. Head and Neck Cancer: Evaluation with PET/CT. PET/CT for the evaluation of diseases of gastrointestinal origin. PET and PET/CT of thyroid disease. Using PET/CT in evaluating Cancers of the Genitourinary Tract. PET/CT in evaluating lymphoma. Diseases of The Lungs: FDG PET/CT. PET/CT Imaging of Cutaneous Malignancies. PET/CT in breast cancer. Patient preparation and scanning considerations for PET and PET/CT. PET Instrumentation and Methodology. Technical Aspects of CT in Practice. Detecting and Evaluating Osseous Metastases on PET/CT. PET/CT findings in primary bone tumors. PET/CT: Mediastinal Lesions
