Critical Role of PET in Assessing Age Related Disorders, An Issue of PET Clinics
- 1st Edition, Volume 18-1 - November 28, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Editor: Abass Alavi
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 0 5 4 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 3 2 3 - 9 6 0 5 5 - 7
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- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- Forthcoming Issues
- CME Accreditation Page
- Preface
- Emerging Role of 18F-NaF PET/Computed Tomographic Imaging in Osteoporosis: A Potential Upgrade to the Osteoporosis Toolbox
- Key points
- Introduction
- Current Imaging Modalities in Osteoporosis
- 18F-NaF PET/computed tomography for bone metabolic imaging
- 18F-NaF PET/Computed Tomography as an Adjunct for Screening and Monitoring Osteoporosis
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- PET Imaging in Osteoarthritis
- Key points
- Introduction
- Technical considerations
- Morpholgic and compositional MR Imaging in osteoarthritis
- Clinical and translational applications
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Sarcopenia and Myositis Revisited: Emerging Role of Fluorine-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose PET in Muscle Imaging
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Disclosure
- Clinical Applications of PET in Evaluating the Aging Spine
- Key points
- Introduction
- Osteoarthritis (degenerative spine disorders)
- Osteoporosis
- Compression fractures
- Spine infection
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- PET-Computed Tomography in Bone and Joint Infections
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Atherosclerosis Imaging: Positron Emission Tomography
- Key points
- Introduction
- 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose
- 18F-sodium fluoride
- Alavi-carlsen calcification score
- Other PET tracers in atherosclerosis
- Limitations of PET
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Role of PET/Computed Tomography in Elderly Thyroid Cancer: Tumor Biology and Clinical Management
- Key points
- Introduction
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Brain PET Imaging: Approach to Cognitive Impairment and Dementia
- Key points
- Introduction
- Pathophysiology of Alzheimer disease
- Clinical standard-of-care imaging
- Research PET tracers for imaging Alzheimer disease
- Future of PET in dementia
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Disclosures
- Brain PET and Cerebrovascular Disease
- Key points
- An introduction to cerebrovascular disease
- Aging
- Imaging cerebrovascular disease with a focus on brain PET
- Technological advances and a potential application for brain PET
- Clinics care points
- Brain PET Imaging: Frontotemporal Dementia
- Key points
- Introduction
- MR imaging versus 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET: diagnostic utility
- Single-photon emission computed tomography
- Amyloid PET
- Tau PET
- Novel radiotracers
- Summary of clinical findings in neuroimaging with fluorodeoxyglucose-PET
- Clinics care points
- Disclosure
- Multi-Scale Temporal Imaging: From Micro- and Meso- to Macro-scale-time Nuclear Medicine
- Introduction
- Temporal imaging and various scales of time
- Longitudinal data in medical imaging research
- Four challenges in quantifying time interval changes
- Recommendations
- Summary
- Clinics care points
- Aging Muscles, Myositis, Pain, and Peripheral Neuropathies: PET Manifestations in the Elderly
- Key points
- Introduction
- Clinics care points
- Summary
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 18-1
- Published: November 28, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN: 9780323960540
- eBook ISBN: 9780323960557
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Abass Alavi
Affiliations and expertise
Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA