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Phenotypic Oncology PET

An Instructional Casebook

  • Serves as a hands-on casebook on how to interpret oncologic PET CT studies
  • Covers new tracers, such as Ga-68, Cu-64 DOTATATE, F-18 Fluciclovine, and F-18 PSMA
  • Written by two nuclear medicine PET specialists with decades of first-hand clinical experience

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Table of contents (100 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Case 1: Double Pulmonary Nodules

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 1-3
  3. Case 2: Nodular Sclerosing Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 5-7
  4. Case 3: Transformation in Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 9-12
  5. Case 4: Metabolic Phenotypes in Different Neoplasms

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 13-15
  6. Case 5: Marrow Involvement in Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 17-19
  7. Case 6: Hip Pain in Lymphoma

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 21-22
  8. Case 7: Prostate Cancer-Specific PET Agent with Rising PSA

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 23-26
  9. Case 8: Brain Tumor Evaluation

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 27-28
  10. Case 9: Metabolic Phenotype in a Slowly Growing Lung Cancer

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 29-31
  11. Case 10: Metabolic Phenotype in Lung Metastasis from Colon Cancer

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 33-35
  12. Case 11: PET and Bone Scans in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 37-40
  13. Case 12: Neuroendocrine Cancer of the Ileum

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 41-44
  14. Case 13: Coexisting Different PET Tumor Phenotypes

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 45-48
  15. Case 14: COVID-19 Vaccination and Lung Nodules

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 49-52
  16. Case 15: COVID-19 Vaccination and Tumor Phenotypes

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 53-56
  17. Case 16: Breast and Ovarian Uptake

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 57-60
  18. Case 17: Rising PSA in Radical Prostatectomy for Prostate Cancer

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 61-64
  19. Case 18: Concurrent Lung and Brain Metastatic Cancer

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 65-66
  20. Case 19: Tumor Phenotypes in Metastatic Prostate Cancer

    • Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu
    Pages 67-70

About this book

This casebook details key information and findings in PET oncology imaging. PET CT has been increasingly utilized in clinical practice for diagnostic evaluation, initial staging and restaging of malignancies, and plays an important role in optimal patient care. Although F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) is still the dominant radioactive tracer in oncology PET imaging services, a handful of new tracers have recently gained the US FDA approval, such as Ga-68 or Cu-64 DOTATATE for carcinoid/neuroendocrine tumors, and F-18 Fluciclovine (AXUMIN) and PSMA for recurrent or metastatic prostate cancers. Clinical interpretation of PET CT oncology scans is often challenging, due to the specific nature of these positron emission radioactive tracers, variable background tracer activities in different organs/tissues with normal variants, complex tumor biology, and wide-ranged treatment responses, especially with emerging and new molecular and immune therapy agents. This book serves as a hands-on casebook on how to interpret oncologic PET CT studies in clinical services with a special emphasis on phenotypic nature of oncologic imaging.

Clinical cases are presented in a way that is familiar to physicians from their training in nuclear medicine services. Each case starts with key clinical information or background, followed by well-displayed PET CT images, along with pertinent questions highlighting the key findings and explanation, as well as the importance in diagnosis and clinical implications on separate pages. Clinical and imaging key findings and final impressions are highlighted throughout along with qualitative and quantitative demonstrations of phenotypic nature of modern PET imaging.

Written by two nuclear medicine PET specialists with decades of first-hand clinical experience, this is an ideal guide for nuclear medicine attending physicians, diagnostic radiologists, medical and surgical oncologists, and relevant trainees.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Sutter Health Imaging, Sacramento, USA

    Ching Yee Oliver Wong

  • Northern California PET Imaging Center, Sacramento, USA

    Dafang Wu

About the authors

Ching Yee Oliver Wong, MD, PhD is Professor of Radiology at the University of Southern California.

Dafang Wu, MD, PhD is Professor of Diagnostic Radiology and Molecular Imaging at Oakland University Beaumont School of Medicine. Dr. Wu is volume editor of Clinical Nuclear Medicine Neuroimaging: An Instructional Casebook (2020).

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Phenotypic Oncology PET

  • Book Subtitle: An Instructional Casebook

  • Authors: Ching Yee Oliver Wong, Dafang Wu

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09737-9

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09736-2Published: 18 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-09739-3Published: 18 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-09737-9Published: 17 October 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 339

  • Number of Illustrations: 100 b/w illustrations, 100 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Nuclear Medicine, Oncology

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eBook USD 84.99
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  • Own it forever
Softcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Compact, lightweight edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info
Hardcover Book USD 109.99
Price excludes VAT (USA)
  • Durable hardcover edition
  • Dispatched in 3 to 5 business days
  • Free shipping worldwide - see info

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