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Cancer Imaging
Lung and Breast Carcinomas
1st Edition - October 25, 2007
Author: M. A. Hayat
Language: English
Hardback ISBN:9780123704689
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With cancer-related deaths projected to rise to 10.3 million people by 2020, the need to prevent, diagnose, and cure cancer is greater than ever. Cancer Imaging presents reader…Read more
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With cancer-related deaths projected to rise to 10.3 million people by 2020, the need to prevent, diagnose, and cure cancer is greater than ever. Cancer Imaging presents readers with the most up-to-date imaging instrumentation, general and diagnostic applications for various cancers, with an emphasis on lung and breast carcinomas--the two major worldwide malignancy types. This book discusses the various imaging techniques used to locate and diagnose tumors, including ultrasound, X-ray, color Doppler sonography, PET, CT, PET/CT, MRI, SPECT, diffusion tensor imaging, dynamic infrared imaging, and magnetic resonance spectroscopy. It also details strategies for imaging cancer, emphasizing the importance of the use of this technology for clinical diagnosis. Imaging techniques that predict the malignant potential of cancers, response to chemotherapy and other treatments, recurrence, and prognosis are also detailed.
Concentrates on the application of imaging technology to the diagnosis and prognosis of lung and breast carcinomas, the two major worldwide malignancies
Addresses the relationship between radiation dose and image quality
Discusses the role of molecular imaging in identifying changes for the emergence and progression of cancer at the cellular and/or molecular levels
Medical, hospital, and 4-year university libraries; medical students, residents, physicians, pathologists and molecular pathologists conducting academic and clinical research; cell and cancer biologists, immunologists, bioinformaticists, and reproductive endocrinologists.
CHAPTER 4. SINGLE - PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 5. DYNAMIC INFRARED IMAGING
CHAPTER 6. IN VIVO BROADBAND SPECTROSCOPY
CHAPTER 7. MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING
CHAPTER 8. COMBINED Tl-WEIGHTED DYNAMIC CONSTANT AGENT-ENHANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING, HYDROGEN 1 MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY, AND PERFUSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
CHAPTER 9. ULTRASOUND IMAGING
CHAPTER 10. ROLE OF ULTRASOUND IN MOLECULAR IMAGING
CHAPTER 11. WHOLE - BODY COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCREENING
CHAPTER 12. POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY/COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY WHOLE - BODY IMAGING
CHAPTER 13. RADIATION DOSE IN COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 14. RISK OF CANCER FROM DIAGNOSTIC X-RAYS
CHAPTER 15. LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN RADIOLOGIC SCREENING
CHAPTER 16. NEAR-INFRARED OPTICAL IMAGING OF PROTEASES IN CANCER
CANCERS
CHAPTER 17. ANTI-HER-2 ANTIBODY AS AN ANTITUMOR AGENT
CHAPTER 18. IMAGING TO DETECT RECURRENT CANCER
CHAPTER 19. ANTIBODY IMAGING AND THERAPY OF CANCER
CHAPTER 20. MOVEMENT OF INVASIVE TUMOR CELLS: INTRAVITAL IMAGING
CHAPTER 21. METASTASES: WHOLE - BODY MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
CHAPTER 62. IMAGING OF DYSPLASTIC NODULES AND SMALL HEP ATOCELLULAR CARCINOMAS
CHAPTER 63. AFFERENT AND EFFERENT VESSELS OF PREMALIGNANT AND OVERT HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA: COLOR DOPLER IMAGING
CHAPTER 64. ASSESSMENT OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA: CONTRAST -ENHANCED PERFUSIONAL SONOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 65. DEPICTION OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA: DYNAMIC STEADY STATE FREE PRECESSION MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
CHAPTER 66. IMAGING DIAGNOSIS OF CIRRHOSIS AND CHRONIC HAPATITIS Dr. K. Ito, Yamaguchi University, Department of Radiology, School of Medicine, Yamaguchi, Japan
CHAPTER 67. DIFFERENTIATION OF HEPATIC TUMORS: COLOR DOPLER IMAGING
CHAPTER 68. METASTASIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA TO THE HEART: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
CHAPTER 69. LIVER METASTASES FROM COLORECTAL CANCER: ULTRASOUND IMAGING OF FLOW PATTERNS
CHAPTER 71. CONTRAST-ENHANCEDSONOGRAPHYFOR HEP ATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA PROSTATE CANCER CHAPTER 72. FAST ACQUISITION-WEIGHTED THREE-DIMENSIONAL PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY IMAGING
CHAPTER 73. CHRONIC PROSTATITIS: THREE DIMENSIONAL PROTON MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPIC IMAGING
CHAPTER 74. RECURRENT PROSTATE CANCER: MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING OR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY IN PATIENTS
CHAPTER 84. COMPARISON OF 18F-FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE AND "C-METHIONINE FOR POSITRON EMISSION - GUIDED STEREOTACTIC IMAGING
CHAPTER 85. GLIOMA: TEMOZOLOMIDE TREATMENT AND MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING Hanna O. Maenpaa, Department of Oncology, Helsinki University Central Hospital, Finland
CHAPTER 86. DIFFUSION TENSOR IMAGING OF BRAIN TUMORS
CHAPTER 87. IMAGING ENDOGENOUS GENE EXPRESSION IN BRAIN CANCER
GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER
CHAPTER 88. RESISTANCE TO IMATINIB THERAPY IN A METASTATIC GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMOR: COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 89. IMAGING OF GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS
CHAPTER 90. ANTIANGIOGENIC THERAPY FOR GASTROINTESTINAL TUMORS
CHAPTER 91. TREATMENT OF INTESTINAL TUMORS WITH AGMATINE
CHAPTER 92. TREATMENT OF GASTROINTESTINAL CANCER WITH CAPECIT ABINETMITOMYCIN C
CHAPTER 93. ADJUVANT ORAL TAGAFUR TREATMENT FOR GASTRIC CANCER PATIENTS
CHAPTER 94. TREATMENT OF INOPERABLE GASTRIC CANCER: COMPARISON BETWEEN MITOMYCIN-CISPLA TIN - DOXIFLURIDINE AND CISPLATIN-DOXIFLURIDINE
CHAPTER 95. CLINICAL RESPONSE OF METASTATIC GASTRIC CANCER TO 5-DEOXY-5-FLUOROURIDINE?
CHAPTER 96. CHEMOSENSITIVITY OF GASTRIC CANCER TO 5-FLUOROURACIL
CHAPTER 97. IN VIVO DETECTION BY ELECTRON PARAMAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
CHAPTER 98. GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS OF THE STOMACH: COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY
CHAPTER 99. GASTRIC MOTILITY DISORDERS: REAL TIME MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING
CHAPTER 100. HAND-ASSISTED LAPROSCOPIC SURGERY FOR ADVANCED-STAGE PROXIMAL GASTRIC CANCER
CHAPTER 101. EARLY GASTRIC CANCER: NARROW BAND IMAGING
CHAPTER 102. EARLY GASTRIC CANCER: MAGNIFYING ENDOSCOPY
Dr. Hayat has published extensively in the fields of microscopy, cytology, immunohistochemistry, immunocytochemistry, and antigen retrieval methods. He is Distinguished Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Kean University, Union, New Jersey, USA.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor, Department of Biological Sciences, Kean University, Union, NJ, USA