Hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/CT Imaging A Teaching File
Hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/CT Imaging: A Teaching File presents a complete book on state-of-the-art integrated PET/CT and SPECT/CT imaging systems. Edited by Drs. Dominique Delbeke and Ora Israel, this practical guide includes in-depth cases that will advanc
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Ora Israel
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Hybrid PET/CT and SPECT/ CT Imaging A Teaching File
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Editors Dominique Delbeke Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences Vanderbilt University Medical Center 1161 21st Ave. S. & Garland Nashville TN 37232-2675 USA [email protected]
Ora Israel Department of Nuclear Medicine Rambam Health Care Campus Bat-Galim 35 254 Haifa Israel [email protected]
ISBN 978-0-387-92819-7 e-ISBN 978-0-387-92820-3 DOI 10.1007/978-0-387-92820-3 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2009930385 # Springer ScienceþBusiness Media, LLC 2010 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Springer ScienceþBusiness 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 responsibility for any errors or omissions that may be made. The publisher makes no warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer ScienceþBusiness Media (www.springer.com)
To my children: Cerine and Cedric Jeanty. Dominique Delbeke In loving memory of my parents. To my husband, Stefan, To Dalit, Yair, Harel and Rani. Ora Israel
Preface
Our profession has progressed tremendously over the last decade. A few years ago one of us (DD) was the senior editor of FDG Imaging: A Teaching File, a book that proved to be a reference source of FDG image cases obtained both on dedicated PET tomographs and hybrid scintillation gamma cameras. This was followed by Nuclear Cardiology and Correlative Imaging: A Teaching File, a text already providing important insights into the complementarity of SPECT and PET cardiac imaging with cardiovascular CT and MRI. These two books were modeled after Nuclear Medicine Imaging: A Teaching File, recently updated with the second edition and designed as a manual of nuclear medicine cases, including studies that were performed with both SPECT and PET tracers. Today, following the continuing development of new imaging devices and of our understanding of molecular processes, we found an unmet need for presenting and discussing cases that demonstrate the role of hybrid imaging with SPECT/CT and PET/ CT with a variety of radiopharmaceuticals used in daily practice. With clinic
