Lung cancer is the leading cause of death from cancer in males. Adequate staging is
essential if proper treatment is to be administered. Current morphological imaging …

MATERIALS AND METHODS Our laboratory has recently become interested in the
development of radiopharmaceuticals labeled with Â8Ga. This radionuclide possesses a …

PET with 18F-FDG has been increasingly applied, predominantly in the research setting, to
study drug effects and pulmonary biology and to monitor disease progression and treatment …

Abstract Objective Respiratory gated PET/CT (positron emission tomography/computed
tomography) of the lung is expected to increase the accuracy of quantitative determinations …

MATERIALSAND METhODS PETStudy Subjectsconsistedof four healthymalevolunteers,
35— 50yr old (mean ±sd, 41 ±7). Following a 10-mmtransmissionscan to correctfor …

Dear Sir, The trend in imaging—no matter if in radiology or nuclear medicine—goes towards
smaller voxels acquired in less time with less radiation dose. Thus, it is merely a matter of …

Dynamic 1-11C-acetate PET (AC-PET) allows quantification of myocardial blood flow and
oxidative metabolism. We wanted to determine the accuracy of AC-PET in measuring …

Nuclear medicine laboratories are currently evaluating regional physiology by the use of
lung perfusion and ventilation scans. The standard lung perfusion scan has an important …

A quantitative dual-isotope single-photon emission tomography (SPET) technique for the
assessment of lung ventilation (V) and perfusion (Q) using, respectively, technetium-99m …

Objective To compare estimates of pulmonary endothelial barrier integrity obtained using
two different tracer proteins. Design Measure the pulmonary transcapillary escape rate with …