ISBN-13: 9780824728540 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 264 str.
With more than 60 color figures throughout, this guide lavishly demonstrates the current status and potential of SPECT/CT technologies and helps physicians precisely define and pinpoint the location of tumors at the time of diagnosis and monitor recurrence before making treatment recommendations details methods for use of SPECT/CT sentinel lymph node localization in patients with melanoma, breast cancer, and head and neck malignancies considers the use of SPECT/CT for therapy planning, dosimetry calculations, and outcomes assessment extensively discusses the incidence, distribution, clinical features, and imaging characteristics of tumors detected by nuclear imaging studies the capabilities and limitations of dual-imaging systems tracks advances in the use of small animal metabolic and hybrid imaging for new developments in drug design Exploring a technology that is significantly impacting the noninvasive evaluation of the physiology and anatomy of tumors, as well as the diagnosis of infectious processes and cardiac diseases, this source presents recent advances and clinical applications of sequential, single session single-photon emission computed tomography and computed tomography imaging. This source is written by pioneers in hybrid imaging and offers authoritative sections on state-of-the-art breakthroughs in sentinel lymph node identification, cardiac imaging, and the study and treatment of a variety of disorders including lymphoma, thyroid and parathyroid tumors, neuroendocrine tumors, prostatic cancer, and bone metastases.