Clinical PET-CT in Radiology: Integrated Imaging in Oncology presents the latest hybrid scanning technology for applications of clinical PET-CT within body imaging. In this comprehensive text, Paul Shreve, MD, and David W. Townsend, PhD, have brought together an internationally-distinguished group of authors to cover all aspects of clinical PET-CT relevant to body oncology imaging technology using CT and FDG PET. The chapters provide practicing imaging physicians with a concise, practical guide, presenting PET-CT as an integrated anatomic-metabolic imaging procedure applied to cancer imaging. Physics and instrumentation chapters are oriented to provide an overview of the available technology and some physical concepts. Comprehensive clinical chapters are structured to provide concise and structured background regarding the clinical management of each cancer and the role of PET-CT imaging in all phases of patient management. Each clinical chapter will help the imaging physician more completely understand the relationship and role of the integrated modality imaging with respect to the overall treatment of the cancer patient.

INDICE:
Principles, Design, and Operation of Multi-slice CT............................................ 1
Marc Kachelriess
2 PET Imaging Basics................................................................................................. 21
Timothy G. Turkington
3 Design and Operation of Combined PET-CT Scanners....................................... 29
David W. Townsend
4 CT-Based Attenuation Correction for PET........................................................... 39
Jonathan P.J. Carney
5 Technical Artifacts in PET-CT Imaging................................................................ 47
Thomas Beyer
6 Quantitation of PET Data in Clinical Practice...................................................... 61
Michael M. Graham
7 Patient Preparation and Management................................................................... 67
Nancy M. Swanston and Paul Shreve
8 Radiation Protection of Technologists and Ancillary Personnel......................... 83
Robert E. Reiman
9 Application of CT Contrast Agents in PET-CT Imaging..................................... 91
Gerald Antoch, Patrick Veit, Andreas Bockisch, and Hilmar Kuehl
10 Performance, Interpretation, and Reporting of PET-CT
Scans for Body Oncology Imaging......................................................................... 103
Paul Shreve and Harry Agress Jr.
11 Pediatric Management and Preparation in PET-CT............................................ 117
Joseph J. Junewick and Paul Shreve
12 PET-CT in Radiation Treatment Planning............................................................ 121
Jacqueline Brunetti
13 Probability and the Principles of Diagnostic Certainty
in Medical Imaging.................................................................................................. 131
Steven Kymes and James W. Fletcher
Contents
viii Contents
14 Principles of Medical Imaging in the Diagnosis and Staging
of the Cancer Patient............................................................................................... 147
Anthony F. Shields
15 Principles of PET in Cancer Treatment for the Assessment
of Chemotherapy and Radiotherapy Response
and for Radiotherapy Treatment Planning........................................................... 157
Natalie Charnley, Terry Jones, and Pat Price
16 PET-CT Imaging of Lung Cancer.......................................................................... 163
Vikram Krishnasetty and Suzanne L. Aquino
17 PET-CT of Esophageal Cancer............................................................................... 181
Gary J.R. Cook
18 PET-CT of Head and Neck Cancers....................................................................... 193
Barton F. Branstetter IV, Sanjay Paidisetty, Todd M. Blodgett,
and Carolyn Cidis Meltzer
19 PET-CT of Thyroid Cancer..................................................................................... 209
Trond Velde Bogsrud, Val J. Lowe, and Ian D. Hay
20 PET-CT in Breast Cancer....................................................................................... 227
Mehmet S. Erturk, Rick Tetrault, and Annick D. Van den Abbeele
21 PET-CT in Colorectal Carcinoma.......................................................................... 245
Michael Blake, James Slattery, Dushyant Sahani, and Mannudeep Kalra
22 PET-CT Imaging of Lymphoma............................................................................. 265
Lale Kostakoglu
23 PET-CT Imaging in Multiple Myeloma, Solitary Plasmacytoma,
and Related Plasma Cell Dyscrasias...................................................................... 293
Ronald C. Walker, Marisa H. Miceli, and Laurie Jones-Jackson
24 PET-CT of Melanoma.............................................................................................. 313
Chuong Bui and Paul Shreve
25 PET-CT of Ovarian Cancer.................................................................................... 329
Carlos A. Buchpiguel
26 PET-CT of Cervical and Uterine Cancer............................................................... 337
Yat Yin Yau
27 PET-CT of Testicular Malignancies....................................................................... 357
Mark Tann and Paul Shreve
28 PET-CT in Pediatric Malignancies......................................................................... 369
Joseph J. Junewick and Paul Shreve
29 PET-CT of Renal Cell Carcinoma.......................................................................... 387
Todd M. Blodgett and Sanjay Paidisetty
30 PET-CT in Soft Tissue Malignancies..................................................................... 397
Edwin L. Palmer, James A. Scott, and Thomas F. DeLaney
Contents ix
31 PET-CT of Pancreatic Cancer................................................................................ 407
Todd M. Blodgett, Sanjay Paidisetty, and Paul Shreve
32 PET-CT of Bone Metastases.................................................................................... 419
James A. Scott and Edwin L. Palmer
Index................................................................................................................................. 433