Authored by some of the world's preeminent authorities in its field, this new book represents today's best single source of guidance on nuclear imaging! It offers more details for each diagnosis · more representative images · more case data · and more current references than any other reference tool. At the same time, its user-friendly format lets you access all of this information remarkably quickly!
Covers the top imaging diagnoses in nuclear medicine, including both common and uncommon entities.
Provides exquisitely reproduced imaging examples for every diagnosis-plus concise, bulleted summaries of terminology · imaging findings · key facts · differential diagnosis · pathology · clinical issues · a diagnostic checklist · and selected references.
Includes an extensive image gallery for each entity, depicting common and variant cases.
Offers a vivid, full-color design that makes the material easy to read.
Displays a "thumbnail" visual differential diagnosis for each entity.
Todd M. Blodgett, MD Chief, Oncologic Imaging Coordinate of CME Activities Department of Radiology University of Pittsburgh Medical Center Hillman Cancer Center 1st Floor Radiology 5115 Centre Avenue Pittsburgh, PA 15232 412.623.4845 412.623.5224 (fax) 412.958.4382 (pager)
Tom Heston MD is Board Certified in Family Medicine and Nuclear Medicine. He earned his MD at St. Louis University and completed post-grad training at Duke, Oregon Health Sciences, University of Washington, and Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Heston pioneered molecular imaging in north Idaho, establishing the first PET program in the region, performing the first PET cardiac scan in the region, the first PET brain scan, the first PET/CT (software) fused imaging, and the first PET bone scan. In recognition of his training and contributions to nuclear medicine, Heston has been received the Fellowship award from both the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology and the American College of Nuclear Medicine.
Heston has setup medical imaging centers throughout the Pacific Northwest in rural settings that previously had no molecular imaging or no access to a physician specifically trained and Board Certified in Nuclear Medicine. He also set up the initial cardiac perfusion PET/CT program in the United Arab Emirates while a faculty member at Johns Hopkins University.
He is an active educator, serving on the faculty at Johns Hopkins University and in addition has taught medicine in the Caribbean since 2000. In 2010, he setup a PET/CT center in the United Arab Emirates for Johns Hopkins International, where he was the medical director for the first ever PET/CT facility at the country's primary cancer diagnosis and treatment hospital (Tawam Hospital in Al Ain). During his time working with the University of Health Sciences Antigua, he gave the Commencement Address for the first ever graduating class, world-wide, undergoing an Internet based basic sciences program. He continues to actively teach medical students, and in 2007 started teaching biostatistics, epidemiology, and bioethics at the International American University Medical College on St. Lucia, where he currently serves (as of 2011) as a full Professor (visiting).
As a Family Physician, he has practiced the full range of family medicine including obstetrics in rural north Idaho at Mountain Health Care. His research, education, and academic contributions to the specialty resulted in him receiving the Fellowship recognition from the American Academy of Family Physicians. Starting in 2005, he setup the nuclear medicine program at the Family Care Network, becoming the first practicing physician in the Bellingham, Washington community to be specialty trained and Board Certified in Nuclear Medicine.
With training at some of the top medical institutions in the world, including Johns Hopkins Hospital, Duke University, and the University of Washington, he continues to promote optimal health through preventive medicine and the early diagnosis of treatable disease.
This review is from: Diagnostic Imaging: Nuclear Medicine, 1e (Hardcover)
This tome is the first to surpass Ignac Fogelman's 1994 "An Atlas of Clinical Nuclear Medicine." The latest hybrid imaging modalities demand ---and this text provides--- correlation of high-resolution anatomic imaging with the functional imaging of both single and dual photon studies. The high quality images and graphics are accompanied by concise explanations and useful procedural protocols.
The Society of Nuclear Medicine's "Diagnostic Patterns in Nuclear Medicine" provides a lengthy listing of diagnoses associated with various imaging findings, but that book's mere listing does little to help make the distinctions necessary to nail the differential diagnosis. This book has no such weakness. A very special strength of this text is that every section explains the distinctions that assist the differential diagnosis. More remarkable still, the explanations are accompanied by images that make those distinctions clear.
Other than the very rare explanation that is too concise or acronym that is obscure, I find no weakness in this text.
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This review is from: Diagnostic Imaging: Nuclear Medicine, 1e (Hardcover)
I recommend Requisites or Mettler for the basics... this is great for images. I wish I had spent more time looking at unusual cases prior to the boards. Great reference for practice.
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