Full Description
This pocket book is the first of its kind on sodium fluoride (18F-NaF)-PET and addresses skeletal as well as cardiovascular applications. In malignant metastatic diseases 18F-NaF-PET has already demonstrated its benefits in cancer staging, re-staging, follow-up and response evaluation. It also has an emerging diagnostic role in the calcified soft-tissue metastases of primary bone tumours, and can be applied to evaluate cardiovascular diseases, such as calcifications in heart valves and peripheral vascular disease.
The book is divided into 11 chapters: five on oncology, four addressing the general aspects of skeletal conditions, and two on cardiovascular diseases. It offers a valuable guide for referring colleagues, nuclear medicine physicians/radiologists and aid clinicians, and highlights the main applications and limitations of 18F-NaF-PET hybrid imaging (PET/CT).
Contents
18F-Fluoride Imaging: Tracer and Technique.- 18F-Fluoride Imaging: Normal variants and artefacts.- Sodium fluoride imaging in oncology.- 18F-Fluoride Imaging: Monitoring therapy.- Determination of Skeletal Tumor Burden on 18F-Fluoride PET/CT.- 18F-Fluoride: Benign Bone Disease.- Dynamic 18F-Fluoride Imaging.- 18F-Fluoride Imaging: Atlas of interesting images (images with specific teaching points, tracer, technique and pitfalls).- Role of Sodium Fluoride-PET in Primary Bone Tumors.- 18F-Sodium Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography in Cardiac Disease.- 18F-Sodium Fluoride positron emission tomography / computed tomography imaging of the peripheral vasculature.
