Technical and Clinical Applications of Long-Axial-Field-of-View/Total Body PET-CT, 2nd Edition
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Medical Imaging and Theranostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 May 2025 | Viewed by 64
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Interests: cardiovascular diseases; PET/CT; SPECT/CT; (hybrid) imaging; multimodality imaging
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Interests: nuclear medicine and molecular imaging; biomedical technology
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Interests: infections; inflammatory diseases; PET/CT; imaging; (tumor)immunology; multimodality imaging
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
PET is widely considered the most sensitive technique available for noninvasively studying physiology, metabolism, and molecular pathways in living human beings. The introduction of total-body (TB)- and long-axial-field-of-view (LAFOV) PET/CT instruments has recently initiated a new and exciting era in medical imaging. Two developments offer the potential to dramatically increase the effective sensitivity of PET. First, by increasing the geometric coverage to encompass the entire body and increasing the sensitivity by a factor up to 40 times for total-body imaging. TB/LAFOV PET/CT will allow for accurate assessment of the extent of disease, particularly including the entire axial and appendicular skeleton. Quantitative global disease assessment provided by this new PET/CT approach will be superior to conventional measurements, which do not reflect overall disease activity. TB/LAFOV PET/CT imaging may have a revolutionary impact on the day-to-day practice of medicine and may become the leading imaging modality in the future. This Special Issue aims to present the role of TB/LAFOV PET/CT in the diagnosis and imaged-based therapeutic management of different (non)oncological diseases, large vessel vasculitis, and also with a focus on the technical background and developments in the era of TB/LAFOV PET/CT camera systems and quantification methodology. We encourage authors to submit both technical and clinical studies in this field. Clinical studies may include systematic reviews/meta-analysis, original retrospective studies, and prospective studies.
Prof. Dr. Riemer H.J.A. Slart
Dr. Joyce van Sluis
Prof. Dr. Andor W.J.M. Glaudemans
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- total body PET/CT
- LAFOV PET/CT
- technical
- clinical
- tracers
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