The role of the fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) technique positron emission tomography (PET) is
well established in the management of patients with lung cancer. Increasingly, it is becoming …

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 …

Recent years have witnessed an explosion in imaging technology applicable to chest
medicine. These include CT and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) for the diagnosis …

Publisher Summary This chapter describes the use of positron emission tomography (PET)
in clinical practice. PET is an advanced diagnostic imaging technique, which can not only …

Methods Fifty-three patients (24 male and 29 female) underwent lung scintigraphy with 68
Ga-labelled radiopharmaceuticals. 68 Ga Galligas and B20 microspheres used for V and Q …

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 …

PET quantitation depends on the accuracy of the CT-derived attenuation correction map. In
the lung, respiration leads to both positional and density mismatches, causing PET …

Fully integrated PET/MR imaging holds great promise as a novel hybrid imaging modality in
oncology and might offer advantages to PET/CT in many instances, especially because of …

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 …

Data obtained during positron emission tomographic (PET) imaging of the lung are
expressed in terms of lung volume, not lung weight. Therefore changes in PET data may …