This article reviews the contribution made by nuclear imaging to the assessment, diagnosis
and monitoring of patients with respiratory disease. It focuses on several specific areas …

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 …

INTRODUCTION: Positron emission tomography (PET) now plays a clear role in oncology,
especially in chest tumours. We discuss the value of metabolic imaging in characterising …

The adaptation to positron emission tomography of the steady-state technique for the
measurement of alveolar ventilation, based on the shortlived radionuclide neon-19 (T,= 17.4 …

Imaging and quantifying biochemical and physiological processes with PET clearly has
major potential significance for all organ systems and many disease states. Although the full …

Positron emission tomography (PET) is a powerful biomedical imaging technique widely
used in neuroscience research, clinical applications, and neuropsychopharmacological …

Despite advances in morphological imaging, some patients with lung cancer are found to
have nonresectable disease at surgery or die of recurrence within yr of surgery. We …

Acentral premise of medicine is that all biological activity is the result of biochemical
reactions and that for every pathology there is an un derlying biochemical defect. A continu …

In the foregoing an overview of positron emission tomography has been presented. Its
theoretical, technical, and methodological implications, as well as its clinical applications …

Positron emission tomography (PET), when used with F-18 fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG),
contributes to the evaluation of patients with lung cancer. This technique of imaging detects …