PET diagnostics

Author: Pan Zhongyun
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Publish Date: 2005-05-01
Features: This book is written to meet the needs of the current stage of nuclear medicine, which has developed with PET imaging as the main focus. The book consists of 10 chapters. The general introduction covers the basic principles and characteristics of PET, positron tracers, and various PET imaging instruments and basic imaging methods. The following 8 chapters focus on the principles, methods, and clinical applications of currently the most commonly used and relatively mature tumor PET imaging, brain PET imaging, and myocardial PET imaging. The final chapter briefly introduces the applications of PET imaging in research areas such as brain function, mental diseases, addiction and detoxification, gene imaging, and gene therapy. Target Audience: Nuclear medicine physicians and other medical imaging physicians