Clinical PET

Clinical PET edited by R. Bares, Giovanni Lucignani.

During the past decade Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has turned from a highly sophisticated tool developed for basic research in neurology and cardiology into an advanced nuclear medicine imaging technique ready for routine use. Along with remarkable technical improvements, an overwhelming numb...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Bares, R. (Editor), Lucignani, Giovanni (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1996.
Edition:1st ed. 1996.
Series:Developments in Nuclear Medicine ; 28
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Radiology.
Nuclear medicine.
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Table of Contents:
  • One: PET in Cardiology
  • 1. PET in Cardiology — Clinical background
  • 2. Assessment of myocardial perfusion by PET
  • 3. Assessment of myocardial viability with PET
  • Two: PET in Oncology
  • 4. PET in oncology — Clinical demands
  • 5. Assessment of gastrointestinal tumors with PET
  • 6. Positron emission tomography in diagnosing lung tumors
  • 7. Assessment of hematological malignancies with PET
  • 8. Whole body positron emission tomography in oncology
  • Three: PET in Neurology
  • 9. PET in neurology — Clinical problems
  • 10. Assessment of brain tumors, cerebrovascular and cerebral degenerative diseases with PET
  • 11. Positron emission tomography in partial epilepsy
  • Four: Technical requirements of a clinical PET-center
  • 12. Technical requirements of a clinical PET center: Instrumentation and personnel
  • 13. Technical requirements of a clinical PET center: Data acquisition and processing
  • 14. Clinical PET: Technological issues
  • 15. New developments in PET technology.

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