Early detection and staging of lung cancer is important in initiating rapid treatment and
improving prognosis. Computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging …

Positron emission tomography (PET) with FDG has shown to be of substantial value in
differential diagnosis of pulmonary lesions and in the assessment of lymph node …

Regional pulmonary perfusion and ventilation can be assessed by imaging, with positron
emission tomography (PET), the pulmonary kinetics of [13N] nitrogen (13N2). Because of its …

Positron emission tomography (PET) with fluor-18-labeled deoxyglucose (FDG) enables
metabolically oriented imaging of intrapulmonary lesions. PET is currently not used for the …

BACKGROUND: Positron emission tomography, performed with isotopes of very short half
life, can be used to relate local lung tissue density to local ventilation and to the ventilation …

An emerging suite of new imaging techniques offer the ability to monitor and quantify
molecular and cellular processes in the lungs noninvasively. These techniques take …

Lung cancer has been the leading cause of cancer-related mortality in China in recent
decades. Positron emission tomography-computer tomography (PET/CT) has been …

Tracer technology makes it possible to observe physiological and biochemical processes in
the living organism in a dynamic mode. Positron emission tomography adds the use of …

The development of positron emission tomography (PET) illustrates how advances in basic
science translates into benefits for human beings. In 1930 Ernest Lawrence and co-workers …