PET and PET/CT imaging: what clinicians need to know

Positron emission tomography (PET), once the sole province of academic medical centers, is rapidly being adopted in daily clinical practice in community hospitals and outpatient centers. It can be especially useful in oncology, cardiology, and neurology. We provide an overview of the fundamentals of...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Cleveland Clinic journal of medicine 2006-12, Vol.73 (12), p.1075-1087
Hauptverfasser:	Bybel, Bohdan, Brunken, Richard C, Shah, Shetal N, Wu, Guiyun, Turbiner, Elliott, Neumann, Donald R
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Humans Neoplasms - diagnosis Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging Positron-Emission Tomography Solitary Pulmonary Nodule - diagnostic imaging Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Zusammenfassung:	Positron emission tomography (PET), once the sole province of academic medical centers, is rapidly being adopted in daily clinical practice in community hospitals and outpatient centers. It can be especially useful in oncology, cardiology, and neurology. We provide an overview of the fundamentals of PET and PET with computed tomography (PET/CT) and discuss their current clinical utility.
ISSN:	0891-1150 1939-2869
DOI:	10.3949/ccjm.73.12.1075