Clinical PET and PET/CT

E. Edmund Kim, MD, is Professor of Nuclear Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.Myung Chul-Lee, MD, is Professor of Nuclear Medicine at Gachon University School of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea.Tomio Inoue, MD, is Professor of Radiology at Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan.Wai-Hoi Wong, PhD, is Director of PET Instrumentation Development Lab Group at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

• 1.- Principles of Positron Emission Tomography Imaging 2.- Production of Isotopes 3.- Principles of PET/CT 4.- Radiopharmaceuticals 5.- Automated Synthesis of Radiopharmaceuticals 6.- Cost Analysis and Effectiveness of PET and PET/CT 7.- Technical Principles, Radiation Safety, and Image Interpretation 8.- Normal and Variable Patterns in PET 9.- Artifacts in FDG-PET and PET/CT 10.- Radiation Dosimetry in F-18 FDG PET/CT 11.- Current Status of PET in the World 12.- Epilepsy 13.- Neurodegenerative Diseases 14.- Cerebrovascular Disease and PET 15.- Brain Tumors 16.- Head and Neck Tumors 17.- Lung and Pleural Cancers 18.- Breast Cancer 19.- Coronary Artery Disease 20.- Myocardial Viability 21.- Atherosclerosis 22.- Esophageal, Gastric, and Pancreatic Cancers 23.- Hepatobiliary and Small Bowel Cancers 24.- Colorectal Cancer 25.- Urologic Cancer 26.- Gynecologic Cancer 27.- Lymphoma 28.- Melanoma, Myeloma, and Sarcoma 29.- Carcinoma of Unknown Primary 30.- 18F-FDG PET in the Evaluation of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases 31.- PET in Radiation Treatment 32.- Evidence-Based PET 33.- PET/MRI

From the reviews of the second edition:“The main objective is to provide a valuable reference for clinicians and trainees in the use of PET and PET/CT in clinical practice. The book achieves its goals. It is written for practitioners in nuclear medicine, radiology, oncology, cardiology, and neurology. It also is intended as a reference for trainees in these fields, especially nuclear medicine and radiology. … Overall, this is a good reference on the subject and is a high quality book.” (Bennett S. Greenspan, Doody’s Book Reviews, May, 2013)