Hybrid PET-CT and SPECT-CT Imaging: A Teaching File

With clinical cases related to multiple clinical entities presented in depth, Hybrid PET-CT and SPECT-CT Imaging: A Teaching File by Dominique Delbeke and Ora Israel is designed to be a teaching manual and everyday companion for our colleagues working in private practice, for residents training in nuclear medicine or radiology, for medical students, and for physicians whose specialties carry over into molecular imaging with radiopharmaceuticals.
The first two chapters cover the technical aspects of hybrid imaging and a historical perspective of the development of this technology. Recommendations for patient preparation and acquisition protocols, with special emphasis on physiologic variants, pitfalls, and artifacts follow. The next 15 chapters are devoted to clinical applications in oncology, according to specific malignant diseases and patient populations. The final three chapters present relatively new clinical applications of hybrid imaging in the field of cardiology, skeletal, and infectious diseases.
Each chapter begins with a succinct summary of the recent literature for the specific clinical application. This is followed by a series of case presentations ranging from the simple to the more complex in an attempt to simulate clinical practice. Images are presented in PET/SPECT stand-alone, CT stand-alone, and fused-images format in order to highlight the advantages and incremental value of the hybrid technology in the cases selected. At the end of each chapter, up-to-date references allow the reader to follow in greater depth the rapidly expanding volume of knowledge.
Contents 
Part I General
I.1 History and Principles of Hybrid Imaging
I.2 Normal Distribution, Variants, Pitfalls, and Artifacts
Part II Clinical Applications in Oncology
II.1 Tumors of the Central Nervous System
II.2 Hybrid Imaging of Head and Neck Malignancies
II.3 Lung Cancer
II.4 Breast Cancer
II.5 Colorectal Cancer
II.6 18F-FDG PET/CT in Tumors of the Gastrointestinal Tract: Esophageal and Gastric Cancer and Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST)
II.7 Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Malignancies
II.8 Gynecological Tumors
II.9 Hybrid Imaging in Malignancies of the Urinary Tract, Prostate, and Testicular Cancers
II.10 Thyroid Cancer
II.11 Endocrine Tumors
II.12 Lymphoma
II.13 Melanoma
II.14 Malignancy of the Bone: Primary Tumors, Lymphoma, and Skeletal Metastases
II.15 Pediatric Applications for PET/CT and SPECT/CT
Part III Other Clinical Applications
III.1 Cardiac Hybrid Imaging (PET/CT and SPECT/CT): Assessment of CAD
III.2 Hybrid Imaging of Benign Skeletal Diseases
III.3 Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases
Subject Index 

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 762 pages
  • Publisher: Springer; 1st  edition (November 23, 2009)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0387928197
  • ISBN-13: 978-0387928197
  • Product Dimensions: 10.1 x 6.9 x 1.5 inches
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