Nuclear Imaging of the Chest

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 1998
ISBN: 978-3-642-80389-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 546 g

Nuclear Imaging of the Chest provides up-to-the minute information on the diagnostic nuclear imaging of chest disorders. The authors habe endeavored to integrate and consonsolidate the many different subspecialities in order to enable a holistic understanding of chest diseases from the nuclear medicine standpoint. Highlights of the book include the description of aerosol lung imaging in COPD and the updates on breast and lung cancer imaging. It is required reading not only for nuclear medicine practitioners and researchers but also for all interested radiologists, traumatologists, pulmonologists and cardiologists.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bahk, Yong-Whee

Isawa, Toyoharu

Kim, E.Edmund

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Bildgebende Verfahren, Nuklearmedizin, Strahlentherapie Nuklearmedizin, PET, Radiotherapie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Basics.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Anatomy and Physiology.- 3 Radiopharmaceuticals and Imaging Techniques.- Clinical Applications.- 4 Ventilation/Perfusion Scan in the Diagnosis of Acute Pulmonary Embolism.- 5 99mTc-Phytate Aerosol Scan of Nonembolic Pulmonary Diseases: A Pattern Analysis with Radiographic Correlation.- 6 Diffuse Panbronchitis and Related Diseases.- 7 Pneumoconiosis.- 8 Lung Cancer.- 9 Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome.- 10 Mucociliary Clearance.- 11 Heart Scan.- 12 Collateral Circulation in the Superior Vena Cava Syndrome.- 13 Mediastinum.- 14 The Bony Thoracic Cage.- 15 Breast Cancer.