PET and PET/CT imaging: what clinicians need to know.
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.
Bybel
Bohdan
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Department of Molecular and Functional Imaging, Division of Radiology, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, OH 44195, USA. bybelb@ccf.org
Brunken
Richard C
RC
Shah
Shetal N
SN
Wu
Guiyun
G
Turbiner
Elliott
E
Neumann
Donald R
DR
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