Approximately 170,000 people arediagnosed with lung cancer in the United States each
year. Manyof these patients receive external beam radiation for treatment. Fluorine-18 2 …

Imaging techniques play a vital role in the diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of patients who
have lung cancer. For this purpose, PET has become an important adjunct to conventional …

In the last hundred years, lung cancer has risen from a reportable disease to the most
common cause of death from cancer in both men and women in developed countries (1) …

Whole-body positron emission tomography (PET) with radiolabeled [18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-
glucose (18FDG) plays an important role in the diagnosis, staging, and management of lung …

Continuing advances in imaging technology have resulted in an improved ability to evaluate
thoracic malignancies with PET. Published reports demonstrate that PET provides accurate …

Positron emission tomography (PET) of the lung is evaluated regarding its clinical
practicability for staging of bronchogenic carcinomas and lymphomas. Stringent quality …

Recent reports have indicated the value of [18F] FDG PET and 201Tl SPECT in diagnosing
lung cancer. In this study, we compared the diagnostic value of FDG PET and 201Tl SPECT …

Positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT) has become a routine
imaging modality in body oncology and is particularly well suited for the management of …

Positron emission tomography using the ECAT II scanner to image and measure regional
lung function is outlined. The combined use of transmission and emission imaging provides …

Purpose The appearance of pulmonary metastases in neoplastic patients previously
submitted to radical operation of an extrapulmonary primary tumor and with no recurrences …