The interpretive practice atlas that follows has not been designed to serve as a typical atlas, in the sense of presenting a set of prototypical examples of a wide variety of clinical entities. Rather, it has been designed to provide actual clinical cases involving a series of brain positron emission tomography (PET) imaging sets that pose interpretive challenges that readers can realistically and repeatedly expect to face in most current clinical environments—where often the patient’s symptoms are mild or even questionable at the time of initial evaluation and the associated metabolic findings may be subtle.
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Silverman, D.H., Lau, V., Geist, C., Siu, E. (2009). Interpretive Practice Atlas. In: Silverman, D. (eds) PET in the Evaluation of Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-76420-7_7
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