BookKalevi Kairemo, Homer A. Macapinlac, editors.
Summary: This pocket book is the first of its kind on sodium fluoride (18F-NaF)-PET and addresses skeletal as well as cardiovascular applications. In malignant metastatic diseases 18F-NaF-PET has already demonstrated its benefits in cancer staging, re-staging, follow-up and response evaluation. It also has an emerging diagnostic role in the calcified soft-tissue metastases of primary bone tumours, and can be applied to evaluate cardiovascular diseases, such as calcifications in heart valves and peripheral vascular disease. The book is divided into 11 chapters: five on oncology, four addressing the general aspects of skeletal conditions, and two on cardiovascular diseases. It offers a valuable guide for referring colleagues, nuclear medicine physicians/radiologists and aid clinicians, and highlights the main applications and limitations of 18F-NaF-PET hybrid imaging (PET/CT).
Contents:
18F-Fluoride Imaging: Tracer and Technique
18F-Fluoride Imaging: Normal variants and artefacts
Sodium fluoride imaging in oncology
18F-Fluoride Imaging: Monitoring therapy
Determination of Skeletal Tumor Burden on 18F-Fluoride PET/CT
18F-Fluoride: Benign Bone Disease
Dynamic 18F-Fluoride Imaging
18F-Fluoride Imaging: Atlas of interesting images (images with specific teaching points, tracer, technique and pitfalls)
Role of Sodium Fluoride-PET in Primary Bone Tumors
18F-Sodium Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography in Cardiac Disease
18F-Sodium Fluoride positron emission tomography / computed tomography imaging of the peripheral vasculature.