Clinical Positron Emission Tomography (PET)

Correlation with Morphological Cross-sectional Imaging

• Author(s): Gustav Konrad von Schulthess,
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
• Pages: 260
• ISBN_10: 0781717566
  ISBN_13: 9780781717564
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Medical / Diagnosis , Medical / Diagnostic Imaging / General , Medical / Radiology, Radiotherapy & Nuclear Medicine , Medical / Reference ,

Description:... Clinical Positron Emission Tomography will help nuclear medicine specialists, radiologists, and neuroradiologists incorporate PET into daily clinical practice. Experts from one of the world's foremost PET centers explain the clinical uses and benefits of PET in conjunction with cross-sectional imaging modalities such as MRI and CT. Discussions focus on specific applications -- diagnosing and staging tumors, detecting infections, evaluating cerebral diseases, and assessing cardiac function. Key information on the financial aspects of PET helps readers make smart, cost-effective decisions about this re-emerging modality.