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Whole-Body PET Imaging Methods

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In as little as a decade whole-body PET imaging has emerged as an essential component of medical imaging in oncology. Rather than being a competitor of CT based anatomical diagnosis in body oncology imaging, the complimentary value of metabolic diagnosis provided by PET and anatomical diagnosis provided by CT is now manifest in combined PET/CT scanners, which likely will quickly become the standard for body oncology medical diagnosis.

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    Paul D Shreve PhD

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Royal North Shore Hospital, St Leonards, Australia

    Dale L Bailey PhD, ARCP (London), FIPEM, MACPSEM (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor) (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor)

  2. School of Medical Radiation Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Dale L Bailey PhD, ARCP (London), FIPEM, MACPSEM (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor) (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor)

  3. Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia

    Dale L Bailey PhD, ARCP (London), FIPEM, MACPSEM (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor) (Principal Physicist, Senior Lecturer and Clinical Associate Professor)

  4. Cancer Imaging and Tracer Development Program, The University of Tennessee Medical Center, Knoxville, TN, USA

    David W Townsend BSc, PhD, PD (Director) (Director)

  5. Northern California PET Imaging Center, Sacramento, CA, USA

    Peter E Valk MB, BS, FRACP

  6. Department of Radiological Sciences, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Clinical PET Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital Trust, London, UK

    Michael N Maisey MD, BSc, FRCP, FRCR (Professor Emeritus) (Professor Emeritus)

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Shreve, P.D. (2005). Whole-Body PET Imaging Methods. In: Bailey, D.L., Townsend, D.W., Valk, P.E., Maisey, M.N. (eds) Positron Emission Tomography. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-84628-007-9_13

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