Edited by
Raymond M. Reilly, PhD
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
This edition first published 2019
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Names: Reilly, Raymond, editor.
Title: Medical imaging for health professionals : technologies and clinical applications / edited by Raymond M. Reilly.
Description: First edition. | Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Identifiers: LCCN 2018036244 (print) | LCCN 2018037499 (ebook) | ISBN 9781119120292 (Adobe PDF) | ISBN 9781119120322 (ePub) | ISBN 9781119120285 (hardback)
Subjects: | MESH: Diagnostic Imaging–methods
Classification: LCC RC78.7.D53 (ebook) | LCC RC78.7.D53 (print) | NLM WN 180 | DDC 616.07/54–dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018036244
Cover design by Noor Al‐saden
Cover image: (Left) Courtesy of Anastasia Oikonomou, (Middle) Courtesy of Chirag Patel, (Right) Courtesy of Hemi Dua
To my students who provided the inspiration for this book. There is no more joyful aspect of being a professor than to teach young people to better understand the world.
Shaheeda Ahmed
Department of Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Noor Al‐saden
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Laila Alshafai
Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Hemi Dua
Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Shereen Ezzat
Departments of Medicine and Oncology, Endocrine Oncology Site Group at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Sangeet Ghai
Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Sylvain Houle
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, Research Imaging Centre and Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Laura Jimenez‐Juan
Department of Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Sarah Johnson
Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Jagbir Khinda
Department of Medical Imaging
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Katerina Mastrocostas
Department of Medical Imaging
Concord Repatriation General Hospital
University of Sydney
Concord, NSW
Australia
Kim May Lam
Department of Medical Imaging
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Ur Metser
Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Rakesh Mohankumar
Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Ali Naraghi
Joint Department of Medical Imaging
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Anastasia Oikonomou
Department of Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Chirag Patel
Department of Medical Imaging
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Raymond M. Reilly
Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Vivek Singh
Department of Medical Imaging
Quinte Health Care
Belleville, Ontario
Canada
Amit Singnurkar
Division of Nuclear Medicine
Department of Radiology
Hamilton General Hospital and St. Joseph’s Health Care
McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada
Noam Tau
Joint Department of Medical Imaging, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Eugene Yu
Departments of Medical Imaging and Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario
Canada
Katherine Zukotynski
Departments of Medicine and Radiology, McMaster University
Hamilton, Ontario
Canada
Patient care is interdisciplinary and requires a health‐care team approach to be most effective. The health‐care team includes pharmacists, nurses, physiotherapists, medical technologists, and other allied health‐care professionals who interact on a daily basis with physicians who have a wide range of specialties. Appropriate treatment relies on an accurate diagnosis, thus diagnostics and therapeutics are the two pillars of an optimal patient‐care plan. Medical imaging is a critical tool in diagnosing disease and in assessing the effectiveness of treatment. Radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians are the experts in medical imaging on the health‐care team and treatment decisions rely on their judgement. Non‐radiologist professionals on the health‐care team need to understand medical imaging in order to appreciate the results of these tests that are communicated by the radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians. This book aims to educate the non‐radiologist health professional about medical imaging, including the principles of the imaging technologies as well as the most common clinical applications of medical imaging. The terminology in the book has been carefully edited to make it suitable for a broader health professional readership. The motivation for this book arises from an elective course that I teach on Medical Imaging for Pharmacists, at the University of Toronto. This course has proven to be very popular among the undergraduate pharmacy students. Practicing pharmacists have similarly expressed a strong interest in learning more about medical imaging, and therefore, I hope that this book will provide an important learning tool for students in the health professions as well as practicing health professionals.
The editor greatly appreciates the contributions of the radiologists to this book in writing the clinical chapters and their understanding of the need to communicate the important role of medical imaging in terminology that is understood by most health professionals. Most of all, the editor thanks all of the contributors for their great patience in awaiting completion of the book. The editor hopes that all authors and readers will be pleased with the book, which is one of the few aimed at a wide range of health professionals who recognize the importance of medical imaging in patient care.
Raymond Reilly is a Full Professor and Director of the Centre for Pharmaceutical Oncology at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto. He is a pharmacist, who obtained his BScPhm and MScPhm degrees in pharmacy and a PhD in Medical Biophysics from the University of Toronto. Dr. Reilly practiced as a nuclear pharmacist in nuclear medicine at the University Health Network in Toronto prior to his academic position. He teaches undergraduate courses in the PharmD program in the areas of clinical laboratory medicine and medical imaging, and teaches a graduate course on radiopharmaceuticals. Dr. Reilly’s research is focused on the development of molecular imaging and radioimmunotherapeutic agents for cancer. He has trained 15 PhD and 12 MSc students. His research is supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, the Canadian Cancer Society Research Institute and the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research.