Clinical Applications of SPECT-CT

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ahmadzadehfar, Hojjat (Editor), Biersack, Hans-Jürgen (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Radiology.; Nuclear medicine.; Oncology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Nuclear Medicine.; Imaging / Radiology.

SPECT/CT cameras have considerably improved diagnostic accuracy in recent years. Such cameras allow direct correlation of anatomic and functional information, resulting in better localization and definition of scintigraphic findings. In addition to this anatomic referencing, CT coregistration provid...

Table of Contents:

• Technology and Physics of SPECT/CT
• Use of SPECT/CT for dosimetry
• SPECT/CT for parathyroid and thyroid imaging
• SPECT/CT for thyroid cancer imaging
• 123Iod-MIBG SPECT/CT for tumor imaging
• SPECT/CT for neuroendocrine tumors
• Bone SPECT/CT in oncology
• Bone SPECT/CT in orthopaedics
• SPECT/CT for cardiac scintigraphy
• SPECT/CT in sentinel node scintigraphy
• Lung SPECT/CT
• Therapy planning in selective internal radiation therapy of liver tumors with SPECT/CT
• Bremsstrahlung SPECT/CT
• Miscellaneous (Brain SPECT/CT, inflammation, radiation planning, GI-Tract).