John Buscombe - Böcker

Featuring chapters from specialists in endocrinology, physiology, pathology, and nuclear medicine, this book provides a multidisciplinary approach to a wide variety of issues concerning somatostatin and its analogues. The book: Provides the most up-to-date coverage of somatostatin analog use in diagnostic and therapyIntegrating the specialties of endocrinology, physiology, pathology, and nuclear medicine, providing the multidisciplinary approach to the topicFocuses on future applications, novel compounds, and areas for further researchCovers topics by authors who are renowned experts and researchers in the field

The diagnostic and therapeutic achievements in radiopharmaceuticals and nuclear medicine instrumentation – PET, SPECT, MR, CT and their hypbrids PET-CT and SPECT-CT – are the result of the interdisciplinary research efforts of cell-biologists, chemists, pharmacologists, physicists, computer-scientists, engineers, nuclear medicine physicians, and oncologists. The clinical implications of these achievements have made nuclear medicine indispensable in the management of cancer. This superbly illustrated text on modern nuclear medicine applications in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer describes the state of the art and the current position of nuclear medicine in the light of these recent developments. It is intended as a valuable update also for non-nuclear medicine specialists working in oncology. Nuclear medicine as part of molecular imaging and therapy has changed radically in the last decade. The growing importance and clinical impact of these changes in the near future has impelled the internationally renowned editors and contributors to put them on record in Advances in Nuclear Oncology.

Nuclear cardiology is no longer a branch structured solely within nuclear medicine. This is the first book integrating in-depth information from both cardiology and nuclear cardiology and is designed to help nuclear physicians and nuclear cardiologists get a stronger grip on the subject. It is unique in that it acknowledges the need for cardiology as the fundamental knowledge base for nuclear cardiology. The text is divided into four sections covering all major topics in cardiology and nuclear cardiology: Basic Sciences and Cardiovascular Diseases Diagnostic Modalities Nuclear Cardiology Management of Cardiovascular Diseases