Abnormal uptake on PET/CT: imitators of malignancy in thoracic imaging

JS O'Donnell, J Rini, J Chusid… - Contemporary Diagnostic …, 2011 - journals.lww.com
Because positron emission tomography fused with contemporaneous computed tomography
scanning is a relatively new imaging modality, not all radiologists are familiar with this …

Technetium-99m-tetrofosmin scintigraphy, P-glycoprotein and lung cancer

MJ Tabuenca, JA Vargas, A Varela… - The Journal of Nuclear …, 1998 - search.proquest.com
TO THE EDITOR We read with interest the article by Kao et al.(1) that referred to the study of
lung masses by means of SPECT imaging of the chest using^ sup 99m^ Tc-tetrofosmin (TF) …

Imaging lung cancer.

EF Patz Jr - Seminars in oncology, 1999 - europepmc.org
Imaging plays an essential role in diagnosing, staging, and following patients with lung
cancer. Most tumors are found on chest radiographs, although further evaluation with …

Pulmonary Tc-99m tetrofosmin imaging: clinical experience with detecting malignant lesions and monitoring response to therapy

T Basoglu, I Bernay, C Coskun, F Canbaz… - Clinical nuclear …, 1998 - journals.lww.com
The authors prospectively investigated the uptake and kinetics of Tc-99m tetrofosmin (Tetro)
in benign and malignant lung lesions and the effect of radiotherapy, chemotherapy, or both …

Positron emission tomography imaging in the thorax

JJ Erasmus, EF Patz Jr - Clinics in chest medicine, 1999 - Elsevier
Positron emission tomography (PET) is emerging as a powerful tool that complements
conventional radiologic assessment (chest radiographs, CT scans, MR imaging) of thoracic …

PET: functional imaging applications in oncology

AD Waxman - Kontraste (Hamburg), 2002 - inis.iaea.org
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PET in primary pulmonary or pleural cancer

JN Talbot, K Kerrou, D Grahek, S Balogova… - … (Paris, France: 1983), 2006 - europepmc.org
In our hospital as in many others, primary lung cancer is the most frequent indication for FDG
PET. Studies have assessed the clinical utility of this imaging modality in characterizing …

Visualizing lung function with positron emission tomography

RS Harris, DP Schuster - Journal of applied physiology, 2007 - journals.physiology.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) provides three-dimensional images of the distributions
of radionuclides that have been inhaled or injected into the lungs. By using radionuclides …

Positron emission tomography imaging of the thorax.

EF Patz Jr, PC Goodman - Radiologic clinics of North America, 1994 - europepmc.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) is just beginning to emerge as a clinically useful tool in
the thorax. Imaging with FDG is used primarily to differentiate benign from malignant …

PET and PET/CT imaging in lung cancer

P Rigo, R Hustinx, T Bury - Positron Emission Tomography: Clinical …, 2006 - Springer
The TNM classification (Table 7.2) uses the anatomic extent of the primary tumor (T stage)
and evidence of spread to regional lymph nodes (N stage) or distant sites (M stage) as a …