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Musculoskeletal PET Imaging, An Issue of PET Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 5-3
  • August 31, 2010
  • Roland Hustinx
  • English
  • Hardback
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This issue reviews the uses of positron emission tomography (PET) for imaging the musculoskeletal system.  Because PET imaging has been particularly effective with regard to imaging of tumors, this issue includes several issues on detecting primary as well as metastatic bone tumors.  PET’s use in imaging soft tissue malignancies and musculoskeletal malignancies are also reviewed.  This issue also explores the uses of PET for osteoporosis and inflammatory and infectious diseases.  The development and applications for alternative radionuclide tracers is also included.

PET in the Aging Brain, An Issue of PET Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 5-1
  • June 22, 2010
  • Andrew B. Newberg + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
    9 7 8 - 1 - 4 3 7 7 - 1 9 4 1 - 3
  • eBook
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PET imaging has shown its value in diagnosing diseases affecting older people. Most significantly this has been with regard to the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Parkinson’s disease is another condition in which PET has proved valuable. This issue also included articles on the uses of PET for diagnosing cerebrovascular disease and for assessing neuroplasticity.

Breast Cancer Imaging II, An Issue of PET Clinics

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 4-4
  • March 2, 2010
  • Sandip Basu + 3 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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This two part issue of PET Clinics provides a comprehensive review to the important topic of Breast Cancer. Although the focus of this issue is the use of PET and PET/CT in the diagnosis, staging, treatment planning, and follow up for patients with breast cancer, there are also articles providing correlates from other imaging modalities.