Sodium Fluoride PET/CT in Clinical Use (eBook)

This pocket book is the first of its kind on sodium fluoride (¹⁸F-NaF)-PET and addresses skeletal as well as cardiovascular applications. In malignant metastatic diseases ¹⁸F-NaF-PET has already demonstrated its benefits in cancer staging, re-staging, follow-up and response evaluation. It also has an emerging diagnostic role in the calcified soft-tissue metastases of primary bone tumours, and can be applied to evaluate cardiovascular diseases, such as calcifications in heart valves and peripheral vascular disease.

Prof. Kairemo graduated with an MSc (Eng) degree from Helsinki University of Technology in 1980 before undertaking medical training (MD, PhD) at the University of Helsinki, Finland. He subsequently completed specialist training in Clinical Chemistry, Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Pharmacology at Helsinki University Central Hospital (HUCH), followed by a research fellowship at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York (1989-93).
He has held posts as Professor of Clinical Chemistry at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (1998-99), Professor of Nuclear Medicine at Uppsala University Hospital in Sweden (2001-05) and as Head of the Nuclear Medicine Division, Department of Oncology at HUCH (2004-09). From 2009 to 2018, he was Chief of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Radiotherapy at the Docrates Cancer Center in Helsinki.  Since 2015 he has also been a Visiting Professor (Nuclear Medicine) at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.
Besides holding a few patents he has published more than 200 original articles in peer-reviewed journals. In 2012, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the World Association of Radiopharmaceutical and Molecular Therapy.