Clinical PET-CT in Radiology

Principles, design, and operation of multi-slice CT -- PET imaging basics -- Design and operation of combined PET-CT scanners -- CT-based attenuation correction for PET -- Technical artifacts in PET-CT imaging -- Quantitation of PET data in clinical practice -- Patient preparation and management -- Radiation protection of technologists and ancillary personnel -- Application of CT contrast agents in PET-CT imaging -- Performance, interpretation, and reporting of PET-CT scans for body oncology imaging -- Pediatric management and preparation in PET-CT -- PET-CT in radiation treatment planning -- Probability and the principles of diagnostic certainty in medical imaging -- Principles of medical imaging in the diagnosis and staging of the cancer patient -- Principles of PET in cancer treatment for the assessment of chemotherapy and radiotherapy response and for radiotherapy treatment planning -- PET-CT imaging of lung cancer -- PET-CT of esophageal cancer -- PET-CT of head and neck cancers -- PET-CT of thyroid cancer -- PET-CT in breast cancer -- PET-CT in colorectal carcinoma -- PET-CT imaging of lymphoma -- PET-CT imaging in multiple myeloma, solitary plasmacytoma, and related plasma cell dyscrasias -- PET-CT of melanoma -- PET-CT of ovarian cancer -- PET-CT of cervical and uterine cancer -- PET-CT of testicular malignancies -- PET-CT in pediatric malignancies -- PET-CT of renal cell carcinoma -- PET-CT in soft tissue malignancies -- PET-CT of pancreatic cancer -- PET-CT of bone metastases.