Editors:

Norman Bolus, MSPH, CNMT, FSNMMI-TS; Mary Beth Farrell, MS, CNMT, NCT, FSNMMI-TS; Joyce Zimmerman, CNMT, MBA, LRT

This is the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging Technologist Section (SNMMI-TS) Publications Committee’s second installment in a series of books dedicated to a single nuclear medicine procedure or imaging category. The books are designed to provide an educational pathway for improving quality, increasing safety and reducing the radiation burden of nuclear medicine procedures.

There are many abdominal imaging procedures performed in nuclear medicine, but this is the first book that addresses only this very complex part of the field. Each chapter covers imaging rationale, indications, contraindications, patient preparation and education, imaging procedure, processing, interpretation including normal and abnormal results, sensitivity/specificity/accuracy, and artifacts.