Chapter 1 General Introduction of Nuclear Medicine 1
1.1 Basis of Nuclear Medicine 1
1.2 Radiopharmaceuticals 10
1.3 Nuclear Medicine Equipment and Nuclear Medicine Methods 21
Chapter 2 Respiratory System 30
2.1 Introduction 30
2.2 Lung Perfusion Imaging 31
2.3 Lung Ventilation Imaging 32
2.4 Clinical Applications 34
Chapter 3 Neural System 39
3.1 Introduction 39
3.2 Cerebral Blood Flow Perfusion Tomography and the Quantification of Regional Cerebral Blood Flow 40
3.3 Energy Metabolism 42
3.4 Neurotransmitter and Receptor Imaging 44
3.5 Compared to the Other Imaging Modalities 46
Chapter 4 Nuclear Cardiology 48
4.1 Myocardial Perfusion Imaging 49
4.2 Radionuclide Ventriculography 53
4.3 Myocardial Metabolic Imaging with 18F-FDG 55
4.4 Imaging Myocardial Infarction 58
4.5 Cardiac Neural Innervation Imaging 59
4.6 Advancement 60
Chapter 5 Endocrine System 64
5.1 Thyroid Imaging 64
5.2 The Parathyroid Glands Imaging 71
5.3 The Adrenal Glands Imaging 73
Chapter 6 The Urinary Tract 78
6.1 Dynamic Renography 79
6.2 Vesicoureteral Reflux(VUR) 85
6.3 Renal Static Scintigraphy 86
Chapter 7 Digestive System 88
7.1 Liver Imaging 88
7.2 Liver Blood Pool Scintigraphy 90
7.3 Hepatobiliary Scintigraphy 92
7.4 Gastrointestinal Scintigraphy 95
7.5 Heterotopic Gastric Mucosa 96
7.6 Gastrointestinal Motility 98
7.7 C-14 Urea Breath Test 100
Chapter 8 Skeletal Scintigraphy 102
8.1 Theory and Methods 103
8.2 Imaging Analysis and Results Judgment 104
8.3 Clinical Application 106
8.4 Compare to Other Imaging Methods 113
Chapter 9 Nuclear Medicine Imaging for the Tumor 116
9.1 Introduction 116
9.2 Nuclear Oncology and its Classification 117
9.3 18F-FDG PET and PET/CT Imaging in Tumor 117
9.4 Tumor Imaging with Other Positron-emitting Agents but 18F-FDG 124
9.5 SPECT and SPECT/CT Imaging in Tumor 126
Chapter 10 In Vitro Immunoassay 129
10.1 Introduction 129
10.2 Radioimmunoassay 130
10.3 Immunoradiometric Assay 133
10.4 Other in Vitro Radioassay 134
10.5 Nonradioactive Labeled Immune Analysis 135
10.6 The Clinical Application of in Vitro Radioassay 136
Chapter 11 Hematopoietic System and Lymphatic System 145
11.1 Hematopoietic System 146
11.2 Lymphatic System 149
Chapter 12 Radionuclide Therapy 156
12.1 Radioiodine Therapy with Ⅰ-131 in Thyroid Disease 157
12.2 Radionuclide Therapy in Oncology 164
12.3 32P Therapy in Polycythemia Vera and Essential Thrombocythemia 166
12.4 Radionuclide Interventional Therapy 167
12.5 Radionuclide Application Therapy 170
12.6 Radionuclide Targeted Therapy 171
12.7 Other Radionuclide Therapies 172