Introduction Despite the successes of medical therapy, infectious disease and noninfectious inflammation remain major clinical problems in daily practice. Acute and chronic inflammation in general are characterized by different physiologic…
PET and PET-CT in Multiple Myeloma Sven N. Reske Anja Dankerl Multiple myeloma (MM) represents a malignant clonal proliferation of plasma cells and commonly results in an overproduction of monoclonal…
PET and SPECT-CT in Lymphoma Karoline Spaepen Sigrid Stroobants Positron emission tomography (PET) using fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is now widely used for staging and monitoring treatment results in patients with Hodgkin…
PET-CT and SPECT-CT of Malignant Melanoma Hans C. Steinert In our institution, whole-body integrated positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is restricted to patients with…
PET and PET-CT in Soft Tissue Sarcomas Janet F. Eary Soft tissue sarcomas are a complex group of neoplasms that are derived from mesenchymal tissue elements. They most commonly occur…
PET-CT and SPECT-CT of Bone Metastases Klaus Strobel Daniela B. Husarik Thomas F. Hany The skeletal system is the third most common localization of distant metastases of malignant tumors, following…
PET-CT and SPECT-CT of Malignant Bone Tumors Janet F. Eary Bone sarcomas present a number of diagnostic and treatment challenges. These tumors occur most frequently in older children and young…
PET and PET-CT of Tumors of the Female Genital Tract Lilie L. Lin Farrokh Dehdashti Barry A. Siegel Perry W. Grigsby Gynecologic malignancies as a group represent a major worldwide…
PET-CT and SPECT-CT in Prostate Cancer Daniela B. Husarik Thomas F. Hany Positron emission tomography (PET) using [11C]- and [18F]-labeled choline analogs has shown promising initial results for prostate cancer…
SPECT-CT Imaging of Sentinel Lymph Nodes in Breast Cancer Daniela B. Husarik Hans C. Steinert One of the promising clinical uses of integrated single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) and computed…
