Overview
- Offers a concise up-to-date summary of the science and practice of PET/CT in lung cancer
- Includes a pictorial atlas with images of each type of lung cancer
- Depicts normal variants, pitfalls, and artifacts
- Authored by eminent oncologists, pathologists, radiologists, and nuclear physicians
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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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Keywords
- PET/CT in Lung Cancer
- Pitfalls in PET/CT in Lung Cancer
- Pathology of Lung Cancer
- Radiological Imaging of Lung Cancer
- Radiotherapy Planning in Lung Cancer
- Benign Lung Tumor
- Malignant Lung Tumor
- PET-CT in Lung Cancer
- Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography
- FDG PET/CT in Lung Cancer
- Radiaton Oncology
Table of contents (8 chapters)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Archi Agrawal is Associate Professor and senior consultant in Nuclear Medicine at the Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India. Her main clinical and research interests are oncological PET/CT imaging with FDG and non-FDG tracers and SPECT/CT imaging. Her special interest is in diagnostic imaging and treatment of thyroid cancer and endocrine malignancies. Dr. Agrawal is actively involved in various disease management groups and multidisciplinary tumor boards of Tata Memorial Hospital with a research interest in genitourinary, head and neck, hematolymphoid, and gastrointestinal malignancies. She has authored many original and review articles in peer-reviewed journals. She is a reviewer for a number of high indexed journals and an editorial board member of the Indian Journal of Nuclear Medicine.
Venkatesh Rangarajan is Professor of Nuclear Medicine at the Tata Memorial Centre, Mumbai, India. He has 27 years of experience in nuclear medicine and is a pioneer in hybrid imaging. Nuclear oncology and pediatric nuclear medicine are his specializations. He has trained at U.K. and U.S. centers in these specialties. Dr. Rangarajan has been a consultant to the International Atomic Energy Agency since 2007. He set up the first PET/CT department in India at the Tata Memorial Hospital in 2004. Currently the department is the largest PET/CT facility in India, performing 16,000 whole-body scans a year.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: PET/CT in Lung Cancer
Editors: Archi Agrawal, Venkatesh Rangarajan
Series Title: Clinicians’ Guides to Radionuclide Hybrid Imaging
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-72661-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-72660-1Published: 26 February 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-72661-8Published: 16 February 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 98
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 43 illustrations in colour
Topics: Nuclear Medicine, Oncology, Radiotherapy