Clinical PET-CT in Radiology Integrated Imaging in Oncology
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 toge
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Paul Shreve David W. Townsend ●
Editors
Clinical PET-CT in Radiology Integrated Imaging in Oncology
Editors Paul Shreve Advanced Radiology Services Grand Rapids, MI USA [email protected]
David W. Townsend Head, PET and SPECT Development Singapore Bioimaging Consortium Singapore [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-48900-1 e-ISBN 978-0-387-48902-5 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-48902-5 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. While the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of going to press, neither the authors nor the editors nor the publisher can accept any legal responsibil-ity for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or im-plied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
It has been nearly a decade since the first PET-CT scanners became commercially available. At the time of the initial launch of clinical PET-CT scanners it was thought at most 30% of the PET scanner market would be in the form of PET-CT scanners. Within only a few years (by 2006), however, PET-CT scanners replaced stand-alone PET scanners completely in commercial offerings, and today over 5,000 PET-CT scanners have been delivered worldwide. The remarkably rapid adoption of PET-CT is not entirely surprising, as the overwhelming clinical application of PET-CT has been body oncology imaging, and the merging of the anatomic and metabolic information provided by CT and FDG PET scans was a natural and already ongoing practice for body oncology imaging. The original intent of PET-CT was to provide clinical CT and clinical PET in one scan procedure with the images sets inherently registered and aligned to facilitate interpretation of both modalities. The notion of merging the anatomic information of CT with the metabolic information of PET was suggested by a cancer surgeon in the early 1990s, but in fact the practice of integrating the interpretation of complimentary imaging modalities for clinical diagnosis has been ongoing in disease-based or organ system-based medical imaging subspecialties. This trend has accelerated recently with the widespread application of PACs a
