Clinical PET and PET/CT

E. Edmund Kim, MD, is Professor of Nuclear Medicine at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston. Myung Chul-Lee, MD, is Professor of Nuclear Medicine at Gachon University School of Medicine, Incheon, South Korea. Tomio Inoue, MD, is Professor of Radiology at Yokohama City University Graduate School of Medicine, Kanagawa, Japan. Wai-Hoi Wong, PhD, is Director of PET Instrumentation Development Lab Group at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston.

1.- Principles of Positron Emission Tomography Imaging 2.- Production of Isotopes 3.- Principles of PET/CT 4.- Radiopharmaceuticals 5.- Automated Synthesis of Radiopharmaceuticals 6.- Cost Analysis and Effectiveness of PET and PET/CT 7.- Technical Principles, Radiation Safety, and Image Interpretation 8.- Normal and Variable Patterns in PET 9.- Artifacts in FDG-PET and PET/CT 10.- Radiation Dosimetry in F-18 FDG PET/CT 11.- Current Status of PET in the World 12.- Epilepsy 13.- Neurodegenerative Diseases 14.- Cerebrovascular Disease and PET 15.- Brain Tumors 16.- Head and Neck Tumors 17.- Lung and Pleural Cancers 18.- Breast Cancer 19.- Coronary Artery Disease 20.- Myocardial Viability 21.- Atherosclerosis 22.- Esophageal, Gastric, and Pancreatic Cancers 23.- Hepatobiliary and Small Bowel Cancers 24.- Colorectal Cancer 25.- Urologic Cancer 26.- Gynecologic Cancer 27.- Lymphoma 28.- Melanoma, Myeloma, and Sarcoma 29.- Carcinoma of Unknown Primary 30.- 18F-FDG PET in the Evaluation of Infectious and Inflammatory Diseases 31.- PET in Radiation Treatment 32.- Evidence-Based PET 33.- PET/MRI