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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.

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Author:   Yong-Whee Bahk ,  E.Edmund Kim ,  Toyoharu Isawa
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1998
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.551kg
ISBN:  

9783642803895

ISBN 10:   364280389
Pages:   336
Publication Date:   03 October 2013
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

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.

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