Description
The first text to offer complete, diagnosis-centered guidance on the effective use of emerging PET technology, Specialty Imaging: PET is a one-stop resource, expertly tailored to your decision support needs at the point of care. This accessible reference covers everything you need to know about the key role of PET in the complex field of precision medicine in areas including oncology, cardiac, infection and inflammation, vascular, breast, neurological, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, neuroendocrine, and many other specialties. With a practical, clinically oriented focus, it brings you fully up-to-date with research-based information on PET and how PET has resulted in radically new treatment approaches based on an immediate and molecular response to therapy.- Features 1,600 high-quality images with captions and annotations for interpretive guidance, with illustrations including PET, with correlative CT and MR images depicting radiologic imaging findings- Presents all diagnoses consistently, using a highly templated format with bulleted text for quick, easy reference- Includes chapters in expert interpretation, artifacts, and common pitfalls- Provides a wide range of essential information such as oncologic PET diagnoses with staging tables and reporting tips; cardiac PET indications including stress tests, cardiac viability, and sarcoidosis; CNS PET indications including dementia, epilepsy, and oncology; and educational, illustrated PET cases including correlative CT and MR- Covers PET physics and instrumentation and current clinical and emerging PET radiotracers in table format- Ideal for clinicians who care for cancer patients (nuclear medicine radiologists, radiation oncologists, oncologists, oncology surgeons, and trainees in nuclear medicine and oncology), as well as those who interpret PET for a wide variety of indications
Table of Contents
PET IMAGING: THE BASICSIntroduction to PET ImagingOverviewPET InterpretationApproach to InterpretationArtifacts and PitfallsPET ProtocolsWhole Body ProtocolsCentral Nervous System ProtocolsCardiac ProtocolsPhysics and RadiopharmaceuticalsPhysics and Quality ControlPhysics and InstrumentationRadiopharmaceuticalsClinical RadiopharmaceuticalsRadiopharmaceuticals in DevelopmentPET IMAGING: CARDIACMyocardial IschemiaMyocardial ViabilityCardiomyopathyAcute Cardiac Infection and InflammationPET IMAGING: CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEMDementiaAlzheimer DiseaseFrontotemporal DementiaCorticobasal DementiaLewy Body DementiaPosterior Cortical AtrophyMulti-Infarct DementiaBehavioral and Movement DisordersEpilepsyIntractable Seizure DisorderCNS Infection and InflammationCerebral Abscess and EncephalitisCerebral ToxoplasmosisPET IMAGING: SOFT TISSUE INFECTION AND INFLAMMATIONAbdominal Infection and Inflammatory DiseasePulmonary Infection and InflammationGranulomatous DiseaseFever of Unknown OriginVascular Infection and InflammationLarge Vessel VasculitisPET IMAGING: MUSCULOSKELETALPediatric Nonaccidental TraumaBenign Bone NeoplasmsBone and Joint InfectionPET IMAGING: ONCOLOGYAdrenalAdrenal CarcinomaBreast OncologyPrimary Breast CancerBreast Cancer StagingCentral Nervous System OncologyPrimary Brain MalignancyBrain MetastasesCutaneous OncologyMelanomaSquamous Cell CarcinomaMerkel Cell CarcinomaGastrointestinal OncologyEsophageal CancerGastric Cancer and Gastrointestinal Stromal TumorAnal CarcinomaPeritoneal Carcinoma and MesotheliomaGenitourinary OncologyUterine and Endometrial CancersOvarian CancerCervical CancerVulvar and Vaginal CancerProstate CancerTesticular CancerRenal Cell CarcinomaTransitional Cell CarcinomaHead and Neck CancerSquamous Cell CarcinomaParotid and Salivary Gland CarcinomaHepatobiliary OncologyHepatocellular CarcinomaAdrenal OncologyPancreatic OncologyPancreatic AdenocarcinomaPancreatic Islet Cell Tumor/NeuroendocrineThoracic OncologyPulmonary Carcinoid TumorLung AdenocarcinomaMalignant Pleural MesotheliomaSmall Cell Lung CancerSolitary Pulmonary NoduleThymoma and Thymic CarcinomaThyroid and Parathyroid CarcinomaAnaplastic Thyroid CarcinomaPapillary and Follicular Thyroid CancerMedullary Thyroid CarcinomaParathyroid CarcinomaLymphomaHodgkin LymphomaNon-Hodgkin LymphomaMusculoskeletal OncologyPrimary Bone TumorsMultiple MyelomaSarcomasNeuroendocrine OncologyAbdominal Carcinoid TumorsPancreatic Neuroendocrine TumorsPheochromocytoma and ParagangliomaPediatric OncologyNeuroblastomaEwing SarcomaOsteosarcomaPediatric LymphomaPET: EMERGING CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
