PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Bybel, Bohdan
AU  - Brunken, Richard C.
AU  - Shah, Shetal N.
AU  - Wu, Guiyun
AU  - Turbiner, Elliott
AU  - Neumann, Donald R.
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.