Inhaltsangabe1) History of Instrument Development 2) Physics of Positron Imaging 3) FDG Production and Distribution 4) Clinical Applications for the Central Nervous System 5) Cardiac Applications for FDG Imaging with PET and SPECT 6) Clinical Applications in Oncology: 6.1) Normal Distribution of FDG 6.2) Head and Neck Carcinoma 6.3) Lung Carcinoma 6.4) Breast Carcinoma 6.5) Colorectal Carcinoma 6.6) Other Gastrointestinal Tumors 6.7) Genitourinary Tumors 6.8) Lymphoma and Hodgkin's Disease 6.9) Melanoma 6.10) Miscellaneous