Somatostatin Analogues

Contributors viii
 
Preface xii
 
Acknowledgements xv
 
1 Somatostatin: The History of Discovery 1
Malgorzata Trofimiuk-Müldner and Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk
 
2 Physiology of Endogenous Somatostatin Family: Somatostatin Receptor Subtypes, Secretion, Function and Regulation, and Organ Specific Distribution 6
Marily Theodoropoulou
 
3 Somatostatin Receptors in Malignancies and Other Pathologies 21
Marco Volante, Adele Cassenti, Ida Rapa, Luisella Righi, and Mauro Papotti
 
4 The Use of Radiolabeled Somatostatin Analogue in Medical Diagnosis: Introduction 31
Alberto Signore
 
4.1 Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy-SPECT 35
Renata MikoBajczak and Alberto Signore
 
4.2 Molecular Imaging of Somatostatin Receptor-Positive Tumors Using PET/CT 55
 
Richard P. Baum and Harshad R. Kulkarni
4.3 Other Radiopharmaceuticals for Imaging GEP-NET 75
Klaas Pieter Koopmans, Rudi A. Dierckx, Philip H. Elsinga, Thera P. Links, Ido P. Kema, Helle-Brit Fiebrich, Annemieke M.E. Walekamp, Elisabeth G.E. de Vries, and Adrienne H. Brouwers
 
4.4 The Place of Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy in Clinical Setting: Introduction 86
Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk
 
4.4.1 Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy in Management of Patients with Neuroendocrine Neoplasms 90
Anna Sowa-Staszczak, Agnieszka StefaDska, Agata Jabrocka-Hybel, and Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk
 
4.4.2 The Place of Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy and Other Functional Imaging Modalities in the Setting of Pheochromocytoma and Paraganglioma 112
Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk, Henri J.L.M. Timmers, and Malgorzata Trofimiuk-Müldner
 
4.4.3 Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy in Medullary Thyroid Cancer 127
Anouk N.A. van der Horst-Schrivers, Adrienne H. Brouwers, and Thera P. Links
 
4.4.4 Somatostatin Receptor Scintigraphy in Other Tumors Imaging 135
Malgorzata Trofimiuk-Müldner and Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk
 
4.4.5

Alicja Hubalewska-Dydejczyk, PhD, MD, is Professor of Endocrinology and Nuclear Medicine, and Head of the Chair and Department of Endocrinology at the Jagiellonian University's Medical College (Cracow, Poland).
 
Alberto Signore, MD, is Professor of Nuclear Medicine and Physician in the Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and Translational Medicine of the Faculty of Medicine and Psychologu of "Sapienza" University in Rome, Italy.
 
Marion de Jong, PhD, is Professor of Nuclear Biology at the Departments of Nuclear Medicine and Radiology of the Erasmusc MC in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
 
Rudi A. Dierckx, PhD, is Head of the Department of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging at the University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, the Netherlands.
 
John Buscombe, MD, is a Consultant Physician in Nuclear Medicine Addenbrooke's Hospital (Cambridge, UK) and Honorary Professor in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
 
Christophe Van de Wiele, PhD, is Full Professor at the University of Ghent, Belgium.