TY - BOOK AU - Hisham Sabry Abdelnaby Abdelhafiz AU - Ahmed Mohamed Wafaie , AU - Nevien Ezzat Elliethy , TI - Role of fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose ( FDG ) positron emission tomography ( PET ) / computed tomography ( CT ) in detection and characterization of vertebral lesions in cancer patients / PY - 2013/// CY - Cairo : PB - Hisham Sabry Abdelnaby Abdelhafiz , KW - Characterization KW - Fluorodeoxyglucose KW - PET / CT N1 - Thesis (M.Sc.) - Cairo University - Faculty of Medicine - Department of Radio-diagnosis; Issued also as CD N2 - Co - registration of PET scans ( functional information ) with CT scans ( anatomic information ) using a combined PET / CT scanner improves the overall sensitivity and specificity of information provided by PET or CT alone . The unique advantage of PET / CT fusion imaging is the ability to correlate findings at two complementary imaging modalities in a comprehensive examination within an acceptable scan time for patients having vertebral disease UR - http://172.23.153.220/th.pdf ER -