This user-friendly atlas demonstrates all of the major clinical applications of PET scanning. Its case-based approach-with teaching points, pitfalls, and "mimics"-presents all of the material in a concise and practical manner. And, correlative cross-sectional images illustrate the clinical features depicted in PET findings.Demonstrates the advantages and limitations of PET imaging in the investigation of cancer, neurological disorders, myocardial viability, and more. Delivers more than 1,100 state-of-the-art images of outstanding quality. Offers correlative plain film, MR, CT, ultrasound, and nuclear imaging studies to help readers recognize what various PET findings depict. Captures the wide range of normal and pathologic PET findings seen in all relevant body areas, and points out the many interpretation pitfalls, including normal and benign variants.