Practical FDG Imaging: A Teaching File

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Delbeke, Dominique (Editor), Martin, William H. (Editor), Patton, James A. (Editor), Sandler, Martin P. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2002.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Nuclear medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nuclear Medicine.

Practical FDG Imaging provides the reader with a reference source of cases with FDG images obtained both on dedicated PET tomographs and hybrid scintillation cameras. The cases are presented in depth so that they will be of value to both specialists and residents in training who need to learn the in...

Table of Contents:

• History of PET
• Physics of PET
• FDG Production and Distribution
• Clinical Applications for the Central Nervous System
• Cardiac Applications of FDG Imaging with PET and SPECT
• Normal Distribution of FDG
• Head and Neck Tumors
• Lung Tumors
• Breast Carcinoma
• Colorectal Carcinoma
• Other Gastrointestinal Tumors
• Genitourinary Tract
• Lymphoma
• Melanoma
• Miscellaneous Tumors.