Molecular Imaging in Multiple Myeloma

Cristina Nanni is a nuclear medicine physician who works in the Nuclear Medicine Department of Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic in Bologna, Italy. She has extensive experience in PET in oncology, multimodality oncological imaging, and non-FDG imaging in oncology and is in charge of multiple myeloma PET imaging at the hospital.  Dr. Nanni is currently participating in an extensive project on standardization of PET imaging for multiple myeloma. She is the author of more than 200 full articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Stefano Fanti is full professor in Nuclear Medicine at the University of Bologna. He is head of the Nuclear Medicine Division and the PET Unit at Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic, and Director of the Specialty School of Nuclear Medicine at the University of Bologna. Dr. Fanti has extensive experience in oncological PET (especially non-FDG tracers). He has been an invited lecturer at more than 250 national and international meetings and isthe author of over 350 full articles in peer-reviewed international journals. Lucia Zanoni is a nuclear medicine physician who works in the Nuclear Medicine Department of Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Polyclinic in Bologna. She has extensive experience of the use of PET in oncology and of multimodality oncological imaging.

• 1.Multiple Myeloma: clinical aspects.- 2. What does a clinician need from new imaging procedures?.- 3.FDG PET in Multiple Myeloma.- 4. Role of Standard Magnetic Resonance Imaging.- 5.Whole Body Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A new era for whole body imaging in myeloma?.- 6.CXCR4 imaging in Multiple Myeloma.- 7.PET/CT with Standard NON-FDG Tracers.- 8. The issue of interpretation.- 9. Clinical Teachning Cases: FDG PET/CT