PET Clinics Vol 3 Issue 03 2009 Pediatric PET Imaging

Index.pdf......Page 0
Preface......Page 1
References......Page 2
The Use of PET in the Evaluation of Tumors in Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1531......Page 3
Pediatric Cardiac PET Imaging587......Page 4
Index635......Page 5
Related Interest......Page 6
Patient preparation......Page 7
Timing of FDG imaging in relation to chemotherapy......Page 8
Prevention of FDG uptake in brown adipose tissue......Page 9
Avoiding artifacts related to attenuation correction and misregistration of PET and CT images......Page 12
Radiation dosimetry and design of the CT-imaging protocol......Page 14
FDG Imaging for Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children and Adolescents......Page 15
[F-18] Fluoride Bone Imaging......Page 16
References......Page 17
Some basics on developmental neuroanatomy......Page 20
Functional aspects of brain development......Page 22
Animal Studies of Brain Development and Maturation......Page 23
FDG-PET studies......Page 24
Neurobiologic correlates of LCMRGlc changes......Page 27
LCMRGlc profile and brain plasticity......Page 28
Postnatal maturation of human GABA receptor......Page 30
Maturational changes in brain serotonin......Page 31
Brain development and protein synthesis......Page 33
Infantile spasms......Page 34
Lennox-Gastaut syndrome......Page 35
Tuberous sclerosis......Page 36
Landau-Kleffner syndrome......Page 37
Cerebral Palsy......Page 38
Developmental Dyslexia......Page 39
Tourette Syndrome......Page 40
Summary......Page 41
References......Page 42
Clinical Application of PET in Pediatric Brain Tumors......Page 49
PET for tumor grading and prognosis......Page 50
Radiation Necrosis......Page 52
FDG-PET......Page 53
Amino acid-PET......Page 54
PET to guide diagnosis......Page 56
Planning Resection......Page 57
Summary......Page 58
References......Page 59
The Use of PETin the Evaluation of Tumors in Children with Neurofibromatosis Type 1......Page 62
Acknowledgments......Page 63
Plexiform neurofibroma......Page 66
Low-grade glioma......Page 67
Detection......Page 68
Grading......Page 69
Guidance for Biopsy......Page 70
Treatment Response......Page 71
Optic Pathway Gliomas and Other NF1-Associated Low-Grade Astrocytomas......Page 72
References......Page 73
PET/CT in the Evaluation of Neuroblastoma......Page 81
Radiopharmaceuticals......Page 82
Fluorodeoxyglucose versus metaiodobenzylguanidine......Page 83
Novel positron-emitting tracers......Page 87
References......Page 89
PET and PET/CT in Pediatric Sarcomas......Page 92
Detecting pulmonary disease......Page 93
Detecting bone and bone marrow disease......Page 95
Detecting nodal metastases......Page 98
Assessing tumor response to therapy......Page 99
References......Page 102
Fluorine-18 DOPA-PET and PET/CT Imaging in Congenital Hyperinsulinism......Page 105
Medical Therapy......Page 106
Patient Selection......Page 107
Radiation Dosimetry......Page 108
FDOPA-PET Performance and Correlation to Management......Page 109
Limitations and pitfalls......Page 110
References......Page 111
Pediatric Cardiac PET Imaging......Page 114
PET instrumentation......Page 115
Cardiac PET radiopharmaceuticals......Page 116
Cardiac PET protocols......Page 117
Clinical applications of pediatric cardiac PET studies......Page 118
References......Page 121
Monitoring inflammatory bowel diseases......Page 124
[F-18]2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose-PET imaging......Page 125
FDG PET/CT imaging......Page 127
References......Page 129
Differential diagnosis......Page 131
Scintigraphy......Page 132
Fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography......Page 133
Infections......Page 134
Noninfectious inflammation......Page 135
Malignancies......Page 136
Limitations......Page 138
References......Page 139
FDG PET and PET/CT in the Management of Pediatric Lymphoma Patients......Page 146
Ga-67 Imaging Versus FDG PET......Page 147
FDG PET Versus FDG PET/CT......Page 148
Initial staging......Page 149
Interim treatment monitoring......Page 151
End of therapy evaluation......Page 153
Surveillance imaging during follow-up......Page 155
Summary......Page 156
References......Page 157
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