Quantitative PET/CT imaging biomarkers in Lung Disease

A Thornton - 2024 - discovery.ucl.ac.uk
It is estimated that up to half of the UK population will be affected by cancer during their
lifetime (1, 2). Whilst half of all people diagnosed with cancer will survive their disease for …

[PDF][PDF] Imaging in Post-COVID Lung Disease: Does 18F-FDG PET/CT Have the Key?

O Gheysens, L Belkhir, F Jamar - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
In this issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Thornton et al. present 18F-FDG PET/CT
data obtained on coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients at several disease stages …

Evolution of 18F-FDG PET/CT findings in patients after COVID-19: an initial investigation

A Thornton, F Fraioli, S Wan… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2022 - Soc Nuclear Med
The aim of this study was to assess the temporal evolution of pulmonary 18F-FDG uptake in
patients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and post–COVID-19 lung disease …

[HTML][HTML] The role of 18F-FDG PET for COVID-19 infection: myth versus reality

G Treglia - Clinical and translational imaging, 2020 - Springer
To date, the whole population is at risk of infection with the coronavirus COVID-19 (SARS-
CoV-2); in particular, older people, often frail and subject to multimorbidity, are at highest risk …

[HTML][HTML] [18F]FDG PET/CT in Short-Term Complications of COVID-19: Metabolic Markers of Persistent Inflammation and Impaired Respiratory Function

EM Triviño-Ibáñez, BM Jiménez-Rodríguez… - Diagnostics, 2022 - mdpi.com
SARS-CoV-2 virus infects organs other than the lung, such as mediastinal lymph nodes,
spleen, and liver, but, to date, metabolic imaging studies obtained in short-term follow-ups of …

Imaging in lung cancer: recent advances in PET-CT and screening

DR Baldwin - Thorax, 2011 - thorax.bmj.com
consultation. CT is a sensitive test to detect lung cancer but not specific, especially if staging
information is required. 7e10 Similarly, the added information provided by FDG-PET …

[HTML][HTML] Inflammatory response in lungs and extrapulmonary sites detected by [18F] fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT in convalescing COVID-19 patients tested negative …

Y Bai, J Xu, L Chen, C Fu, Y Kang, W Zhang… - European journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Background The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) has
resulted in an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The …

PET in the diagnostic management of infectious/inflammatory pulmonary pathologies: a revisit in the era of COVID-19

S Katal, H Amini… - Nuclear Medicine …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
Inflammatory and infectious pulmonary diseases represent a significant cause of morbidity
and mortality. Different morphological imaging techniques, and mainly computed …

Potential of 18F-FDG-PET in the Global Assessment of Lung Inflammation

V Zhang, T Pham, M Aly, ME Revheim, T Werner… - 2021 - Soc Nuclear Med
2012 Objectives: Review the present use of 18F-FDG-PET in lung inflammation/interstitial
lung diseases. Review the potential value of 18F-FDG-PET in the global measurement and …

FDG-PET/CT of COVID-19 and other lung infections

LS Eibschutz, B Rabiee, S Asadollahi, A Gupta… - Seminars in nuclear …, 2022 - Elsevier
While not conventionally used as the first-line modality,[18 F]-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose
(FDG)-positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) can identify infection …