Specialty Imaging: PET Specialty Imaging Series

The first text to offer complete, diagnosis-centered guidance on the effective use of emerging PET technology, Specialty Imaging: PET is a one-stop resource, expertly tailored to your decision support needs at the point of care.

This accessible reference covers everything you need to know about the key role of PET in the complex field of precision medicine in areas including oncology, cardiac, infection and inflammation, vascular, breast, neurological, musculoskeletal, gastrointestinal, neuroendocrine, and many other specialties.

With a practical, clinically oriented focus, it brings you fully up-to-date with research-based information on PET and how PET has resulted in radically new treatment approaches based on an immediate and molecular response to therapy.

Pet Imaging: the basics
. Introduction to PET Imaging
. Overview
PET Interpretation
. Approach to Interpretation
. Artifacts and Pitfalls
PET Protocols
. Whole Body Protocols
. Central Nervous System Protocols
. Cardiac Protocols
Physics and Radiopharmaceuticals
Physics and Quality Control
. Physics and Instrumentation
Radiopharmaceuticals
. Clinical Radiopharmaceuticals
. Radiopharmaceuticals in Development

Pet imaging: Cardiac
. Myocardial Ischemia
. Myocardial Viability
. Cardiomyopathy
. Acute Cardiac Infection and Inflammation

Pet imaging: Central nervous system
Dementia
. Alzheimer Disease
. Frontotemporal Dementia
. Corticobasal Dementia
. Lewy Body Dementia
. Posterior Cortical Atrophy
. Multi-Infarct Dementia
. Behavioral and Movement Disorders
Epilepsy
. Intractable Seizure Disorder
CNS Infection and Inflammation
. Cerebral Abscess and Encephalitis
. Cerebral Toxoplasmosis

Pet imaging: Soft tissue infection and inflammation
Abdominal Infection and Inflammatory Disease
. Pulmonary Infection and Inflammation
. Granulomatous Disease
. Fever of Unknown Origin
. Vascular Infection and Inflammation
. Large Vessel Vasculitis

Pet imaging: Musculoskeletal
Pediatric Nonaccidental Trauma
. Benign Bone Neoplasms
. Bone and Joint Infection

Pet imaging: Oncology
Adrenal
. Adrenal Carcinoma
Breast Oncology
. Primary Breast Cancer
. Breast Cancer Staging
Central Nervous System Oncology
. Primary Brain Malignancy
. Brain Metastases
Cutaneous Oncology
. Melanoma
. Squamous Cell Carcinoma
. Merkel Cell Carcinoma
Gastrointestinal Oncology
. Esophageal Cancer
. Gastric Cancer and Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumor
. Anal Carcinoma
. Peritoneal Carcinoma and Mesothelioma
Genitourinary Oncology
. Uterine and Endometrial Cancers
. Ovarian Cancer
. Cervical Cancer
. Vulvar and Vaginal Cancer
. Prostate Cancer
. Testicular Cancer
. Renal Cell Carcinoma
. Transitional Cell Carcinoma
Head and Neck Cancer
. Squamous Cell Carcinoma
. Parotid and Salivary Gland Carcinoma
Hepatobiliary Oncology
. Hepatocellular Carcinoma
. Adrenal Oncology
Pancreatic Oncology
. Pancreatic Adenocarcinoma
. Pancreatic Islet Cell Tumor/Neuroendocrine
Thoracic Oncology
. Pulmonary Carcinoid Tumor
. Lung Adenocarcinoma
. Malignant Pleural Mesothelioma
. Small Cell Lung Cancer
. Solitary Pulmonary Nodule
. Thymoma and Thymic Carcinoma
Thyroid and Parathyroid Carcinoma
. Anaplastic Thyroid Carcinoma
. Papillary and Follicular Thyroid Cancer
. Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma
. Parathyroid Carcinoma
Lymphoma
. Hodgkin Lymphoma
. Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma
Musculoskeletal Oncology
. Primary Bone Tumors
. Multiple Myeloma
. Sarcomas
Neuroendocrine Oncology
. Abdominal Carcinoid Tumors
. Pancreatic Neuroendocrine Tumors
. Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma
Pediatric Oncology
. Neuroblastoma
. Ewing Sarcoma
. Osteosarcoma
. Pediatric Lymphoma

Pet: emerging clinical applications