Since the previous review on this topic of functional computed tomography (CT) and MRI of
the lung, significant advances have been made into the development of imaging based …

Abstract Purpose of Review The main goal of the article is to familiarize the reader with
commonly and uncommonly used nuclear medicine procedures that can significantly …

Recent discoveries characterizing the molecular basis of lung cancer brought fundamental
changes in lung cancer treatment. The authors review the molecular pathogenesis of lung …

Dynamic heterogeneity in lung ventilation is an important measure of pulmonary function
and may be characteristic of early pulmonary disease. While standard indices like …

For a long time, imaging of the chest was based on the use of either radiography,
demonstrating lung morphology, or scintigraphy, looking at lung function. However, as a …

The ventilation/perfusion lung scan has been in continuous use for approximately half a
century, the same lifetime as Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. Remarkably, the founding …

Imaging plays a central role in the screening, classification, and monitoring of pulmonary
vascular disease (PVD). In patients with diagnosed PVD, it allows noninvasive quantification …

studies on normal physiological and pathological processes that take place in the lung are
hampered by the architecture and behavior of a living, breathing lung with a very complex …

Rapid advances in image analysis technology have revealed new insights into chronic
respiratory disease. In the approximately one hundred years since the first medical use of X …

An overview of thoracic imaging|INIS IAEA NUCLEUS Sign In Sign In Register Help 50+ years
of INIS International Nuclear Information System International Nuclear Information System Home …