Nuclear Medicine: Principles and Practice 2nd Revised edition [Hardback]

VOLUME I Part I. INTRODUCTION 1. Mileposts in Nuclear Medicine
History 2. Decision Making, Statistics, and Informatics 3. Radiation
Safety Part II. The Scientific Basis of Nuclear Medicine A. PHYSICS
4. Basic Physics of Nuclear Medicine 5. Gas-Filled Ionization Radiation
Detectors in Nuclear Medicine 6. Scintillation Detectors and Scintillation
Detector Counting Systems 7. Gamma Camera Imaging Systems 8. Gamma Camera
Collimator Characteristics and Design 9. Nuclear Counting Statistics
10. Progress in Semiconductor Detectors for use in Nuclear Medicine
11. Representation of Gamma Camera Images by Computer 12. Image Content and
Image Filtering Techniques 13. In Vivo Quantitation of Activity by Planar
Imaging 14. SPECT Image Reconstruction 15. Gamma Camera SPECT Systems and
Quality Control 16. Nuclear Medicine Image Display Techniques
17. Quantitative SPECT 18. A Quality Control Program for Nuclear Medicine
Cameras 19. Principles of PET and PET/CT Imaging 20. PET Image
Reconstruction 21. Tracer Kinetics: Principles of Compartmental Analysis and
Physiologic Modeling 22. Internal Radiation Dosimetry B. RADIOPHARMACY
23. Principles of Radiopharmacy 24. Pathway for FDA Approval of New
Radiopharmaceuticals 25. Radionuclides: Cyclotron, Reactor, and Fission
Products 26. Radionuclide Generators: Design, Operation, and Clinical
Utility 27. The Chemistry of Technetium and Other Metals As It Applies to
Radiopharmaceuticals 28. Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry: Iodination
Techniques 29. Radiolabeling Formed Elements of Blood: Methods and
Mechanisms 30. Quality Control in the Hot Lab 31. Ensuring Microbiologic
Purity of Radiopharmaceuticals 32. Positron Radiopharmaceuticals and Their
Chemistry 33. In Vivo Nonimaging Studies 34. Principles and Applications
of Radioassays 35. Adverse Reactions to Radiopharmaceutical agents and
Long-term Effects 36. Basic Principles of Radiation Biology 37. Planning
for Radiation Accidents and Radiologic Events Part III. Immunologic
Aspects of Nuclear Medicine 38. New approaches to radiolabeling monoclonal
antibodies 39. Tumor necrosis therapy of cancer: new methods of antibody
targeting 40. Radiation dosimetry of radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies:
practical considerations 41. Overview of imaging procedures with
radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies in cancer patients Part IV. Clinical
Organ Systems Studies A. CARDIOVASCULAR 42. Radiopharmaceutical agents for
cardiac imaging 43. Computer aspects of myocardial imaging 44. Functional
cardiac imaging 45. Clinical applications of myocardial perfusion imaging
46. Radiopharmaceuticals for myocardial infarct imaging 47. MIBG imaging
48. Positron Emission Tomography of the Cardiovascular System 49. Peripheral
vascular disease: arterial and venous B. ENDOCRINE 50. The thyroid gland
51. Scintigraphic imaging of the adrenals and neuroectodermal tumors
52. Parathyroid scintigraphy 53. Correlative endocrine imaging VOLUME II
C. GASTROINTESTINAL 54. Radiopharmacy aspects of gastrointestinal imaging
55. Salivary glands 56. Esophageal transit and reflux gastric emptying
57. Radiopharmaceuticals for liver and spleen imaging 58. Liver and spleen
imaging 59. Radiopharmaceuticals for hepatobiliary imaging
60. Hepatobiliary imaging 61. Evaluating gastrointestinal bleeding by
nuclear medicine techniques 62. Scintigraphic assessment of peritoneovenous
shunt function D. Genitourinary 63. Radiopharmaceuticals for renal
imaging 64. Glomerular Filtration 65. The role of ACE inhibitor renography
in the diagnosis of renovascular hypertension 66. Evaluation of renal
transplants 67. Testicular imaging 68. Pediatric Urology E.
Musculoskeletal 69. Bone Imaging Radiopharmaceuticals 70. Skeletal
scintigraphy in non-neoplastic osseous disorders 71. Malignant bone disease
72. Bone marrow scintigraphy 73. Measurement and interpretation on bone
mineral density F. Neurology 74. Radiopharmaceuticals for cerebral
imaging 75. Cerebral perfusion imaging 76. Cerebrospinal fluid imaging
77. The role of positron emission tomography in the investigation of
neurological disorders 78. The role of positron emission tomography in the
investigation of psychiatric disorders 79. Correlative imaging in neurology
and neurosurgery G. Pulmonary 80. Radiopharmaceuticals for pulmonary
imaging 81. Ventilation/perfusion scintigraphy 82. Pulmonary imaging for
nonthrombolic disease Part. V Special Oncologic Studies 83. Non PET
Oncologic Imaging 84. Lymphoscintigraphy in oncology 85. Positron
emission tomography: applications in oncology Part VI. Correlative Imaging
86. Prospective Image Fusion: the role of SPECT/CT and PET/CT
87. Retrospective merging of physiological and anatomical images: software
solutions 88. The future of nuclear medicine: molecular imaging and
radiotherapy Part VII. Therapy with unsealed sources 89. Therapy of
hyperthyroidism 90. The treatment of thyroid malignancies 91. Radionuclide
therapy in the peritoneum, pleura, synovium, and hematopoietic system
92. Radionuclide Synovectomy 93. Therapy for painful skeletal metastases
94. Radioimmunotherapy of lymphomas and leukemias 95. Radioimmunotherapy of
solid tumors 96. Radioimmunotherapy with alpha-emitting radionuclides
Part VIII. Diagnosis of inflammatory disease 97. Gallium imaging
98. Indium-111 labelled leukocyte imaging in the diagnosis of infection and
inflammatory disease 99. Imaging inflammation and infection TC 99m HMPAO
labeled leukocytes 100. Infection imaging using labeled antibodies and newer
agents 101. Correlative imaging of abdominal infection Part IX.
Pediatrics 102. Radiopharmaceuticals for pediatric imaging 103. Pediatric
skeletal scintigraphy Index