Clinical PET-CT in Radiology Integrated Imaging in Oncology /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Shreve, Paul (Editor), Townsend, David W. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Edition: 1.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Nuclear medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Imaging / Radiology.; Diagnostic Radiology.; Nuclear Medicine.

Clinical PET-CT in Radiology: Integrated Imaging in Oncology presents the latest hybrid scanning technology for applications of clinical PET-CT within body imaging. In this comprehensive text, Paul Shreve, MD, and David W. Townsend, PhD, have brought together an internationally-distinguished group o...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• PET-CT Physics
• PET-CT Scanning Protocols
• Patient Preparation and Practical Issues in PET-CT Scanning and Interpretation
• Principals of the Imaging Diagnosis and Staging of Cancer
• Principals of the Imaging Diagnosis of Cancer Response to Therapy
• PET-CT of Head and Neck Cancer
• PET-CT of Thoracic Malignancies
• PET-CT of Gastrointestinal Malignancies
• PET-CT of Genitourinary Malignancies
• PET-CT of Lymphoproliferative Disorders
• PET-CT of Melanoma
• PET-CT of Connective Tissue Malignancies and Osseous Metastatic Disease
• PET-CT of Breast Cancer.