Atlas of PET/CT Imaging in Oncology
Contributors: M.E. Phelps (Foreword)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Springer
Published: November 19, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 315
ISBN-13: 9783540209522
Subjects: Medical imaging; Oncology; Medical; Medical / Nursing; Radiology; Diagnostic Imaging; Orthopedics; Artifacts; Cancer Imaging; FDG-PET; Medical / Radiology & Nuclear Medicine; PET/CT; General
First sentence: Positron Emission Tomography, introduced almost three decades ago by Phelps and Hoffman,1 has only recently been accepted as the most important and innovative tool for cancer imaging.
Description: Designed to teach radiologists and nuclear medicine specialists about important aspects of molecular imaging and nuclear medicine specialists about the benefits of anatomic imaging. It consists of a brief didactic portion and an extensive selection of interesting and challenging case examples. A special feature of the atlas is an interactive CD-ROM that provides the original PET and CT images of each case in selected planes enabling the users to manually adjust the blending intensity of each modality in a fused image. In addition, users can display the clinical history, imaging techniques and diagnostic findings of each case as well as the corresponding specific teaching point.