Monitoring Response to Treatment
Monitoring Response to Treatment Anthony F. Shields Clinical imaging of many types, including x-ray, nuclear, and ultrasound techniques, is widely used to detect and stage cancer. After detection and staging…
PET and PET/CT in Radiation Oncology
PET and PET/CT in Radiation Oncology Michael P. Mac Manus Rodney J. Hicks Most patients with malignant disease require radiation therapy at some point in their illness. At many institutions,…
How to Optimize CT for PET/CT
How to Optimize CT for PET/CT Gerald Antoch Andreas Bockisch Dual-modality positron emission tomography plus computed tomography (PET/CT) imaging systems permit the combined acquisition of functional and morphological data within…
Principles of Cancer Imaging with 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)
Principles of Cancer Imaging with 18-F Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) Richard L. Wahl Anatomic imaging has been the fundamental approach to cancer imaging for more than 100 years. The continued utility of…
Fundamentals of CT in PET/CT
Fundamentals of CT in PET/CT Mahadevappa Mahesh Imaging modalities are commonly differentiated as functional or anatomical in nature. However, both categories of information are complementary and when combined allow integration…
Image Fusion
Image Fusion Charles R. Meyer Richard L. Wahl Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is normally performed as a tomographic technique designed to trace a specific biological process with…
Standardized Uptake Values
Standardized Uptake Values Richard L. Wahl Positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/CT (computed tomography) are inherently quantitative techniques. Properly performed attenuation-corrected images from well-calibrated scanners accurately reflect radioactivity concentrations in…
PET Physics and PET Instrumentation
PET Physics and PET Instrumentation Timothy G. Turkington Positron emission tomography (PET) quantitatively measures the biodistribution of positron emitting radiotracers in vivo. Positrons emitted from positron-emitting radioisotopes radiotracers, which travel…
Radiotracer Chemistry
Radiotracer Chemistry Joanna S. Fowler Yu-Shin Ding Over the past 35 years, advances in radiotracer chemistry and positron emission tomography (PET) instrumentation have merged to make PET a powerful scientific…
Production of Radionuclides for PET
Production of Radionuclides for PET Ronald D. Finn David J. Schlyer Coupled with the advancement in noninvasive cross-sectional imaging techniques to identify structural alterations in diseased tissues, there have been…
