Abass Alavi: 11 books

This issue of PET Clinics focuses on Radiotracers, and is edited by Drs. Neil Vasdev and Abass Alavi. Articles will include: PET/CT detection of HER2-positive metastases in patients with 89Zr-DFO-trastuzumab; uPAR-PET with 68Ga-NOTA-AE105: first clinical experience with a novel PET ligand; 64Cu-FBP8:...

This issue of PET Clinics focuses on PET-Based Molecular Imaging in Evolving Personalized Management Design, and is edited by Drs. Abass Alavi and Sandip Basu. Articles will include: PET-Based Personalized Medicine: An Unavoidable Path for the Foreseeable Future; Personalized Management Approaches...

This issue of PET Clinics is Part II of a two-part issue, and focuses on PET-CT-MRI Applications of Musculoskeletal Disorders. It is edited by Drs. Abass Alavi (the Consulting Editor of PET Clinics), Ali Salavati, Ali Gholamrezanezhad and Ali Guermazi. Articles will include:Applications of PET-CT-MR...

This issue of PET Clinics focuses on PET-CT-MRI based Cardiovascular Imaging, and is edited by Drs. Abass Alavi (the Consulting Editor of PET Clinics), Poul Flemming Høilund-Carlsen, and Ali Salavati. Articles will include: Evolving role of PET in detecting and characterizing atherosclerosis; Applications...

This book prepares students and technologists for registry examinations in nuclear medicine technology by providing practice questions and answers with detailed explanations, as well as a mock registry exam.  The questions are designed to test both the basic knowledge required of nuclear medicine...

PET imaging has shown its value in diagnosing diseases affecting older people. Most significantly this has been with regard to the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia. Parkinson’s disease is another condition in which PET has proved valuable. This issue also included articles...

PET/CT holds great promise for the management of many types of infection and inflammation.  This issue discusses many of these uses, starting with arthroplasty-associated infection.  FDG PET/CT also has utility in inflammatory bowel disease.  This issue also discusses the utilization of FDG PET...

This book prepares students and technologists for registry examinations in nuclear medicine technology by providing practice questions and answers with detailed explanations, as well as a mock registry exam. The questions are designed to test the basic knowledge required of nuclear medicine technologists,...

This issue of PET Clinics focuses on PET/MRI: Clinical Applications, and is edited by Drs. Drew Torigian and Andreas Kjaer. Articles will include: PET/MRI in Prostate Cancer; PET/MRI in Vascular Disease; PET/MRI in Lymphoma; PET/MRI in Head and Neck Cancer; PET/MRI in Brain Disease; PET/MR in Cancers...

PET imaging has been used for the assessment of lung cancer for several years for diagnosis, staging, and post-treatment follow up.  Expanded applications are now being used and explored in the imaging of the heart, thoracic vascular disease, and chest wall disorders.  This issue provides an up-to-date review of the uses of PET for oncologic and nononcologic diseases of the thorax.

Comprehensive pocket reference Up-to-date questions and answers regarding NRC regulations