PET/CT for Inflammatory Diseases: Basic Sciences, Typical Cases, and Review

This comprehensive guide sheds new light on the benefits of FDG PET/CT  in diagnosing inflammatory diseases. Although FDG PET/CT offers an invaluable tool for diagnosing inflammatory diseases, the clinical evidence on its application remains limited.

To remedy this gap, each chapter of this book includes detailed descriptions of how FDG PET/CT can be used in connection with a specific inflammatory disease. Further, the authors discusses the precise clinical presentation, including key images and their interpretation, techniques and diagnosis. As such, it allows readers to see for themselves how valuable FDG PET/CT is for the diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis and aortitis syndrome, as well as rheumatic diseases and neuroimflammation, and the detection of the disease focus of inflammation or fever of unknown origin.

Given its scope, this excellent collection is a valuable resource for radiologists and physicians who are involved in nuclear medicine, as well as cardiologists, cardiovascular surgeons, and rheumatologists.

Hiroshi Toyama, M.D., Ph.D.,

Department of Radiology,

Fujita Health University

Toyoake, Aichi, Japan

 htoyama@fujita-hu.ac.jp

 

Yaming Li, M.D., Ph.D.,

Department of Nuclear Medicine 

The First Hospital of China Medical University

Shenyang, Liaoning, China

ymli2001@163.com

 

Jun Hatazawa, M.D., Ph.D.,

Specially Appointed Professor,

Joint Research Division for the Quantum Cancer Therapy, Research

Center for Nuclear Physics Osaka University

Professor Emeritus, Osaka University,

Suita, Osaka, Japan

hatazawa@tracer.med.osaka-u.ac.jp

Guang Huang, M.D., Ph.D.,

Shanghai University of Medicine & Health Sciences,

Shanghai, China

huang2802@163.com

 

Kazuo Kubota, M.D., Ph.D.,

Department of Radiology,

Southern TOHOKU General Hospital

Koriyama, Fukushima, Japan

kkubota@cpost.plala.or.jp