Guidelines

Teaching Materials

• Atlas
• Readings
• CME

Guidelines for Positron emission tomography:

• DGN (German Society of Nuclear Medicine)
• EANM (European Association of Nuclear Medicine)
• SNM (Society of Nuclear Medicine )
• ACR (American College of Radiology)
• SNM - Tumor Imaging with 18F-FDG PET/CT 1.0

Teaching Material

Atlas

• Atlas of PET/CT
• Let's Play PET.
• PET. Brain Atlas
• P E T. Whole Body Atlas
• My PET. (Dr. Alibazoglu)

Readings

• PET/CT Imaging Artifacts (JNMT)
• F18-FDG Imaging: Pitfalls and Artifacts (JNMT)
• Utility of 18F-FDG-PET in Evaluating Cancers of Lung (JNMT)
• PET. Evaluation of Lung Cancer (JNM)
• PET/CT: Challenge for Nuclear Cardiology (JNM, October 2005, Volume 46, Number 10)
• Whole-body positron emission tomography-CT: optimized CT using oral and IV contrast materials (AJR 2002; 179:1555-1560)
  
• Effects of nonionic intravenous contrast agents at PET/CT imaging: phantom and canine studies (Radiology 2003;227:817-824)

 

CME

• Management of Patients with Lung Cancer (E. Russi (EANM 2002))
• FDG-PET for Staging and Restaging of Patients with Lung Cancer (H. Steinert(EANM 2002))
• Quality control of PET. Radiopharmaceuticals (A. Verbruggen (EANM 2003))
• PET/CT: Technical aspects (V. Bettinardi (EANM 2003))
• Clinical Experience with PET/CT using mainly 2D emission data acquisition (T. Hany (EANM 2003))
• Dual modality imaging with a combined PET/CT imaging system: technical aspects, acquisition and processing (C. Schiepers (EANM 2003))
• Treatment response: evaluation after therapy (T. F. Hany (EANM 2003))
• Theoretical and Practical Advantages of PET/CT (J. Czernin(EANM 2003))
• The Role of PET in the management of Thyroid cancer
• Clinical PET in colorectal cancer
• The Role of PET in the Management of Lung cancer
• PET/CT in staging and restaging of Lymphoma (Talbot (EANM 2005))
  
• PET/CT in assessing therapy response in managing lymphoma patients(O. Schober (EANM 2005))
• Current status of PET in GEP tumors (W. Langsteger (EANM 2005))
• Patient preparation, imaging procedure and pitfalls in paediatric PET (Borgwardt(EANM 2005))
• Multimodality imaging in paediatric oncology with emphasis on PET in lymphoma (Pfluger(EANM 2005))
• PET in paediatric solid tumours (Franzius (EANM 2005))
  
• Are there other radiopharmaceuticals than FDG ready for the current applications of PET/CT in oncology?(EANM 2004)
  
• PET and PET/CT as a tool for prognostic evaluation of tumor behaviour prior to therapy (EANM 2004)
  
• PET/CT in tumor response assessment and radiotherapy planning: effectiveness and limits (EANM 2004)
  
• PET in loco-regional recurrence and extended breast cancer disease(EANM 2004)
• Radionuclide therapy of breast cancer metastases(EANM 2004)
• Attenuation correction in PET and PET/CT (EANM 2004)
• Radiation Safety in PET and PET/CT (EANM 2004)
• PET: What you need to know about PET CT Practice and Protocols
• How Does PET/CT Help Patient management?

Useful Links

• Clinical PET Center of Guy's and St Thomas' Hospitals, London.
• Hammersmith Hospital, Image Research Solutions Limited, UK
  
• How PET Works
• Introduction to PET Physics
• (PET) Lab at The Mount Sinai Medical Center
• Pet scan info
• Petscan.org (a very useful webpage)
• PET for Cancer
• PET in Oncology (Drs. Strauss)
• The National Oncologic PET Registry (NOPR)
• Trans European Network for Positron Emission Tomography (TENPET)
• University of Geneva, Switzerland