PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Bohdan Bybel AU - Richard C. Brunken AU - Shetal N. Shah AU - Guiyun Wu AU - Elliott Turbiner AU - Donald R. Neumann TI - PET and PET/CT imaging: What clinicians need to know DP - 2006 Dec 01 TA - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine PG - 1075--1087 VI - 73 IP - 12 4099 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/73/12/1075.short 4100 - http://www.ccjm.org/content/73/12/1075.full SO - Cleve Clin J Med2006 Dec 01; 73 AB - Positron emission tomography (PET), once the sole province of academic medical centers, is rapidly being adopted in daily clinical practice in community hospitals and outpatient centers. It can be especially useful in oncology, cardiology, and neurology. We provide an overview of the fundamentals of PET and PET with computed tomography (PET/CT) and discuss their current clinical utility.