Nuclear Imaging of the Chest provides up-to-the minute information on the diagnostic nuclear imaging of chest disorders. The authors habe endeavored to integrate and consonsolidate the many different subspecialities in order to enable a holistic understanding of chest diseases from the nuclear medicine standpoint. Highlights of the book include the description of aerosol lung imaging in COPD and the updates on breast and lung cancer imaging. It is required reading not only for nuclear medicine practitioners and researchers but also for all interested radiologists, traumatologists, pulmonologists and cardiologists.

Basics

1 Introduction
2 Anatomy and Physiology
3 Radiopharmaceuticals and Imaging Techniques
Clinical Applications
4 Ventilation/Perfusion Scan in the Diagnosis of Acute Pulmonary Embolism
5 99mTc-Phytate Aerosol Scan of Nonembolic Pulmonary Diseases: A Pattern Analysis with Radiographic Correlation
6 Diffuse Panbronchitis and Related Diseases
7 Pneumoconiosis
8 Lung Cancer
9 Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome
10 Mucociliary Clearance
11 Heart Scan
12 Collateral Circulation in the Superior Vena Cava Syndrome
13 Mediastinum
14 The Bony Thoracic Cage
15 Breast Cancer.