Overview
- Provides up-to-date guidance on the use of PET/CT in patients with melanoma
- Describes characteristic imaging features, normal variants, artifacts, and pitfalls
- Provides information on the relevant clinical and pathological background
- Includes a series of informative teaching cases
Part of the book series: Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging (CGRHI)
Part of the book sub series: PET/CT (PET/CT)
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About this book
This pocket book provides up-to-date guidance on the use of PET/CT in patients with melanoma, which is of rapidly growing importance due to the emergence of immunotherapy. The role of PET/CT in diagnostic workup, staging, treatment selection, prognostication, and follow-up is clearly explained. Imaging features are described and illustrated with the aid of a series of teaching cases, and attention is drawn to normal variants, artifacts, and pitfalls. Readers will also find explanation of the relation of the clinical and pathological background to imaging and the value of PET/CT compared with conventional radiological imaging. The book is published within the Springer series Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging (compiled under the auspices of the British Nuclear Medicine Society) and will be an excellent asset for referring clinicians, nuclear medicine/radiology physicians, radiographers/technologists, and nurses who routinely work in nuclear medicine and participate in multidisciplinary meetings.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Michael S. Hofman is a nuclear medicine physician and Associate Professor at the Centre for Cancer Imaging at the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne, Australia's only public hospital dedicated to cancer treatment, research, and education. He previously completed a PET/CT and research fellowship at Guy's & St Thomas' in London. He has a broad interest in positron emission tomography (PET), molecular imaging applications in oncology, and radionuclide therapy, with a particular focus on novel PET radiotracers and theranostic applications, including neuroendocrine and prostate cancers. He currently serves as an associate editor for several journals, including Cancer Imaging, Journal of Medical Imaging and Radiation Oncology, and Leukemia Lymphoma.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: PET/CT in Melanoma
Editors: Michael S. Hofman, Rodney J. Hicks
Series Title: Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54741-1
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 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-54740-4Published: 10 August 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-54741-1Published: 31 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 66
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 32 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Medicine, Oncology