PET and PET/CT

Basic Science Chapter 1: The Physics of PET/CT Scanners Chapter 2: Radiochemistry of Fluorodeoxyglucose and Biology Chapter 3: Glucose and FDG Metabolism: What the Clinician Needs to Know to Interpret PET Studies Clinical Basics Chapter 4: Patient preparation Chapter 5: Standardized uptake value Chapter 6: Normal variants and benign findings Chapter 7: Interpretation of FDG PET studies Chapter 8: PET/CT Chapter 9: Key to clinical indications Oncological Applications Chapter 10:Oncological PET by anatomic region Chaper 11: Therapy Response Chapter 12: Brain Neoplasms Chapter 13: Head and neck cancer Chapter 14: Thyroid cancer Chapter 15: Thoracic neoplasms Chapter 16: Breast cancer Chapter 17: Gastric, Esophageal and Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors Chapter 18: Lymphoma Chapter 19: Melanoma Chapter 20: Hepatobiliary Chapter 21: Pancreatic cancer Chapter 22: Gynecological tumors Chapter 23: Urological tumors Chapter 24: Colorectal cancer Chapter 25: Musculoskeletal tumors Nononcological Applications Chapter 26: Pediatric PET Chapter 27: PET and PET/CT in Radiation Therapy Planning Chapter 28: FDG-PET in Infection and Inflammation Chapter 29: Neurological Applications Chapter 30: Cardiac PET and PET/CT

Eugene C. Lin, Abass Alavi.

A valuable reference source...This small and affordable book should be useful to both trainees and practicioners...Highly recommend[ed]. -- The Journal of Nuclear MedicineIn conclusion, in the considered opinion of this reviewer, this textbook is the best reference source for both the trainees and practitioners who are actively involved in utilizing FDGPET/CT modality in their clinical practice.--Clinical Imaging [A] compact, softcover handbook that should be of immense help...useful...excellent points of discussion...supplemented with excellent figures and references...well written...this book summarizes the scientific literature on PET and PET/CT.--Academic RadiologyEasy-to-read and well-organized package. -- American Journal of RoentgenologySure to be a hit -- just like the first edition...All the chapters are well written and the accuracy of information is impressive...The illustrations, as in the first edition, are of the highest quality...[we] cannot recommend the book strongly enough to anyone working in the field of clinical PETCT...certainly should be included in the booklist of every newcomer in the field, including trainees in nuclear medicine and radiology.--RAD MagazineAn excellent handbook.. A good study companion for trainees. The authors have fulfilled their objective and produced an excellent textbook that will be valuable to residents and other trainees who want an accesible source of authoritative information.--RadiologyAn affordable, portable, complete, and concise resource or review text concerning a very timely clinical subject. [The second section of the book] is an outstanding contribution to this text and could be used by any radiologist at any level of training who wants to review positron emission tomography (PET). The illustrations in this book are outstanding. They are appropriate for the discussion and expand the reader's understanding. None of the topics are covered too extensively, and this, combined with the partial outline format, m