Specialty Imaging: PET

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.

Features 1,600 high-quality images with captions and annotations for interpretive guidance, with illustrations
including PET, with correlative CT and MR images depicting radiologic imaging findings


Presents all diagnoses consistently, using a highly templated format with bulleted text for quick, easy reference


Includes chapters in expert interpretation, artifacts, and common pitfalls


Provides a wide range of essential information such as oncologic PET diagnoses with staging tables and reporting tips;
cardiac PET indications including stress tests, cardiac viability, and sarcoidosis; CNS PET indications including
dementia, epilepsy, and oncology; and educational, illustrated PET cases including correlative CT and MR


Covers PET physics and instrumentation and current clinical and emerging PET radiotracers in table format


Ideal for clinicians who care for cancer patients (nuclear medicine radiologists, radiation oncologists, oncologists,
oncology surgeons, and trainees in nuclear medicine and oncology), as well as those who interpret PET for a wide
variety of indications


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