Purpose The purpose of the study was to evaluate prospectively whether integrated 2-deoxy-
2-[18 F] fluoro-d-glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG …

Lung cancer is a fairly common malignancy. An early diagnosis and a reliable staging and
re-staging with the aim to detect both local and distant relapse are of utmost importance in …

Lung cancer (LC) still represents one of the most common tumours in both women and men.
PET/CT is a whole-body non-invasive imaging procedure that has been increasingly used …

Background There have been conflicting results regarding fluorine 18–labeled
fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) PET/MRI diagnostic performance in lung malignant …

Interstitial lung diseases (ILDs) are a heterogeneous group of conditions, with a wide and
complex variety of imaging features. Difficulty in monitoring, treating and exploring novel …

Positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging (PET/MRI) potentially offers
several advantages over positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT), for …

Radiologic imaging modalities play a critical role in the diagnosis and the overall
management of many pulmonary disorders, including solitary pulmonary nodules, lung …

Accurate PET quantitation requires a matched attenuation map. Obtaining matched CT
attenuation maps in the thorax is difficult due to the respiratory cycle which causes both …

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging has made it possible to detect the in vivo
concentration of positron-emitting compounds accurately and non-invasively. In order to …

Methods currently used to assess lung and airway inflammation are often poorly
quantitative, invasive, nonspecific, or insensitive. Positron emission tomography (PET) with …