Mehmet T. Kitapçı: Atlas of Sectional Radiological Anatomy for PET/CT

Excerpt

Positron emission tomography (PET)/CT has become the imaging method of choice for a large number of indications, mainly in oncology. The best diagnosis is made by putting together both functional and morphostructural information and is strictly connected with the availability of two specialists or hopefully of a specialist well trained in PET and CT. Waiting for a wide diffusion of expert diagnostic imagers able to see and understand the whole content of the image, a nuclear physician working with PET [or single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT)] has to however start to know sectional radiological anatomy; then he has to at least recognize pathological patterns which may create an emergency and/or have to be further analysed by an expert radiologist. All this knowledge has to be acquired using a low-dose technique, i.e. a diagnostic CT procedure, although not used at the technical state-of-the-art level. …