Clinical Positron Emission Tomography (Pet): Correlation with Morphological Cross-Sectional Imaging [Illustrated] [Hardcover]

Gustav Konrad Von Schulthess (Editor)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0781717566 | ISBN-13: 978-0781717564 | Publication Date: January 2000 | Edition: illustrated edition

Clinical Positron Emission Tomography will help nuclear medicine specialists, radiologists, and neuroradiologists incorporate PET into daily clinical practice. Experts from one of the world's foremost PET centers explain the clinical uses and benefits of PET in conjunction with cross-sectional imaging modalities such as MRI and CT. Discussions focus on specific applications -- diagnosing and staging tumors, detecting infections, evaluating cerebral diseases, and assessing cardiac function. Key information on the financial aspects of PET helps readers make smart, cost-effective decisions about this re-emerging modality.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 272 pages
• Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; illustrated edition edition (January 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0781717566
• ISBN-13: 978-0781717564
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,296,695 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars nice book for beginners, March 10, 2001

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jonas santiago (staten island, new york United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Clinical Positron Emission Tomography (Pet): Correlation with Morphological Cross-Sectional Imaging (Hardcover)

a nicely written thin book on PET. all of the images were acquired using a GE PET Advance but this shouldn't deter siemens or other brand users. the first few chapters on the economics on putting up a PET scanner and cyclotron unit are a waste due to the different conditions existing in different countries. they should have spent more pages on cardiac PET. there is adequate coverage of neuro PET. oncologic PET, understandably, will never be enough as the science is still rapidly progressing. but this book should whet one's appetite for the other clinical oncology PET books around. i would have wanted a few chapters devoted to cyclotron and radiopharmacy operation since this is what a lot of PET MDs lack.

4.0 out of 5 stars Positron Emission Tomography ; Correlation, April 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Clinical Positron Emission Tomography (Pet): Correlation with Morphological Cross-Sectional Imaging (Hardcover)

Positron Emission Tomography is a non invasive, diagnostic imaging technique for measuring the metabolic activity of cells in the human body. It is useful clinically in patients with certain conditions affecting the brain and the heart as well as in patients with certain types of cancer. The field of PET has been quickly emerging into clinical diagnostic medicine. PET has been in clinical use since the early 1990s.

This is a very good book. This book covers from Basic to date advances in PET. All physical fields are describe. This book should be used as hand book of basic sicence of PETSCAN