Radiologic exams have become indispensable to the diagnostic process because they offer
a noninvasive glimpse inside the human body. For many diseases, imaging facilitates …

[en] The early application of positron emission tomography in the lung was mainly
concerned with the investigation of the regional volume of the vascular and extravascular …

Molecular imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) has dramatically changed the
management of patients with lung cancer who are treated with radiotherapy. Uptake of the …

More than 50 years ago, John West and colleagues (1) published their landmark study on
the vertical distribution of blood flow in the lung as a result of the interplay between the local …

Carcinoma of the lung is one of the most frequent malignancies and a major cause of
mortality. The use of positron emission tomography (PET) has been extensively investigated …

The advances in PET scanning for thoracic diseases that are deemed most likely to have
clinical impact in the near-term future are highlighted in this article. We predict that the …

This concise, excellently illustrated pocket book provides an up-to-date summary of the
science and practice of PET/CT imaging in lung cancer. The coverage encompasses the …

T HE 1990s marked the emergence of positron emission tomography (PET) using F-18
fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) as the single most powerful imaging tool in the diagnosis and …

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 …

Bronchogenic carcinoma is the most frequently occurring cancer in the world, with an
incidence of 1.2 million cases in 2000.[1] In the United States lung cancer had an estimated …