title: PET and PET/CT imaging: what clinicians need to know.
abstract: Positron emission tomography (PET), once the sole province of academic medical centers, is rapidly being adopted in daily clinical practice in community hospitals and outpatient centers. It can be especially useful in oncology, cardiology, and neurology. We provide an overview of the fundamentals of PET and PET with computed tomography (PET/CT) and discuss their current clinical utility.
authors.affiliation: Department of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Division of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. bybelb@ccf.org
authors.forename: Bohdan
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bybel
authors.forename: Richard C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Brunken
authors.forename: Shetal N
authors.initials: SN
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Guiyun
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Wu
authors.forename: Elliott
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Turbiner
authors.forename: Donald R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Neumann
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D003074:Solitary Pulmonary Nodule / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed