Radiopharmaceuticals
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania “Primum non nocere” –First do not harm—Hippocrates 6.1 Introduction The use of specific radiotracers called…
The Radiation Protection
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Salus populi suprema lex esto. —Health of the people should be the supreme law—Marcus Tullius…
Specific Measurements, Units, and Terms
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. – Chinese proverb…
The Adrenal Glands
(1) Institute of Oncology “Prof. Ion Chiricuță”, Nuclear Medicine & Endocrine Tumors, Cluj-Napoca, Romania “If anything is sacred, the human body is sacred” Walt Whitman, (poet 1819–1892) 9.1 Overview…
SPECT/CT, PET/CT and PET/MR Principles
. In tomography, the voxel value in a transverse slice is reconstructed from different LORs passing through all the voxels of this slice. As a result, the noise in a…
Internal Dosimetry: Principles and Applications to NET
The SI unit for absorbed dose is joule per kilogram (J kg−1) and its special name is gray (Gy) [11]. In nuclear medicine represents the number of radionuclide disintegrations in…
Radionuclide Imaging of Gastrointestinal Neuroendocrine Tumors
Frequent clinical features Secretion Management (first line) Stomach Mainly endoscopic discoverya Rare Depends on type (see text) Small intestine Often discovered on complication (obstruction, perforation, bleeding) Liver metastasis Carcinoid…
Radionuclide Imaging of Head and Neck Paragangliomas
Fig. 13.1 Jugular PGL. Co-registered axial planes in MR TOF (time of flight) without gadolinium, CT (bone kernel), and MR TOF—CT rigid fusion with PGLs drawn in orange. 1 Jugular…
Principles and Application of Molecular Imaging for Personalized Medicine and Guiding Interventions in Neuroendocrine Tumors
Fig. 10.1 Contrasting strengths and weaknesses of both anatomic and molecular imaging. The fusion of both modalities with hybrid PET/CT or PET/MRI enables the evaluation of function and anatomy contemporaneously…
