Basics of PET Scanning
Basics of PET Scanning Cyrill Burger David W. Townsend Positron emission tomography (PET) involves the administration to a patient of a radioactive, positron-emitting nuclide, which tags a biomolecule specific to…
Basics of SPECT Scanning: Emission and Transmission
Basics of SPECT Scanning: Emission and Transmission Timothy G. Turkington David R. Gilland Single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging provides cross-sectional images of the distributions of single-photon-emitting radiotracers. In all…
Radiation Sources for Emission Scanning: Positron and Gamma Emission
Radiation Sources for Emission Scanning: Positron and Gamma Emission Cyrill Burger Alfred Pfeiffer Nuclear medicine is based on pharmaceuticals labeled with a suitable radioactive isotope. After such a radiopharmaceutical has…
Introduction
Introduction Gustav von Schulthess The rapid adoption of positron emission tomography (PET) within the framework of the combined use of PET and computed tomography (CT), or PET-CT, has been astounding….
Introduction
Introduction In this first part, the physical and technical aspects of positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), computed tomography (CT), and their integrated forms are discussed. The…
Femur and Thigh
Femur and Thigh Case 5.1 Rectus Femoris Strain, Grade CLINICAL HISTORY 20-year-old man with pain in the left proximal thigh following a non-contact football injury. FIGURE 5.1A FIGURE 5.1B FIGURE…
Ankle and Foot
Ankle and Foot Case 8.1 PTT Longitudinal Split Tear CLINICAL HISTORY A 71-year-old woman with ankle pain. FIGURE 8.1A FIGURE 8.1B FINDINGS (A) Axial proton density and (B) T2-weighted, fat-suppressed…
