Main description:

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:

Chapter 118F-Fluoride Imaging: Tracer and Technique Lesley Flynt and Richelle Millican

Chapter 2

18F-Fluoride Imaging: Normal variants and artefacts Xu Guofan

Chapter 3

Sodium fluoride imaging in oncology Kalevi Kairemo and Homer A. Macapinlac

Chapter 4

18F-Fluoride Imaging: Monitoring therapy Elba Etchebehere and Kalevi Kairemo

Chapter 5

Determination of Skeletal Tumor Burden on 18F-Fluoride PET/CT Ana Emilia Brito and Elba Etchebehere

Chapter 6

18F-Fluoride: Benign Bone Disease Kalevi Kairemo and Homer A. Macapinlac

Chapter 7

Dynamic 18F-Fluoride Imaging Homer A. Macapinlac and Kalevi Kairemo

Chapter 8

18F-Fluoride Imaging: Atlas of interesting images (images with specific teaching points, tracer, technique and pitfalls) Xu Guofan

Chapter 9

Role of Sodium Fluoride-PET in Primary Bone Tumors Vivek Subbiah and Kalevi Kairemo

Chapter 10

18F-Sodium Fluoride Positron Emission Tomography in Cardiac Disease

Marwa Daghem and David E Newby

Chapter 11

18F-Sodium Fluoride positron emission tomography / computed tomography imaging of the peripheral vasculature Maaz BJ Syed, Jakub Kaczynski and David E Newby