Hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/CT Imaging: A Teaching File presents a complete book on state-of-the-art integrated PET/CT and SPECT/CT imaging systems. Edited by Drs. Dominique Delbeke and Ora Israel, this practical guide includes in-depth cases that will advance the skills of nuclear physicians and radiologists while also preparing residents for the field of nuclear medicine and radiology. Internationally-recognized contributors provide the reader with chapters covering the technical and clinical aspects of hybrid imaging, including basic principles, physics and instrumentation, the normal distribution of radiopharmaceuticals, and protocols critical to the field. A comprehensive review of nuclear oncology cases found in everyday practice are addressed, including among other clinical applications head and neck tumors, breast cancer, lung neoplasms, colorectal cancer, pancreatic cancer, and genitourinary tumors. Additional chapters examine the use of these modalities in pediatric patients, benign bone diseases and infection, and cardiac hybrid imaging. A wealth of illustrations reinforces the key teaching points discussed throughout the book.
Hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/CT Imaging
Dominique Delbeke
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Ora Israel
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Hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/ CT Imaging A Teaching File
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Editors Dominique Delbeke Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Vanderbilt University Medical Center 1161 21st Ave. S. & Garland Nashville TN 37232-2675 USA
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Ora Israel Department of Nuclear Medicine Rambam Health Care Campus Bat-Galim 35 254 Haifa Israel
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ISBN 978-0-387-92819-7 e-ISBN 978-0-387-92820-3 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-92820-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930385 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com)
To my children: Cerine and Cedric Jeanty. Dominique Delbeke In loving memory of my parents. To my husband, Stefan, To Dalit, Yair, Harel and Rani. Ora Israel
Preface
Our profession has progressed tremendously over the last decade. A few years ago one of us (DD) was the senior editor of FDG Imaging: A Teaching File, a book that proved to be a reference source of FDG image cases obtained both on dedicated PET tomographs and hybrid scintillation gamma cameras. This was followed by Nuclear Car