Pulmonary PET imaging is still immature relative to developments and experience in other
fields, such as brain, heart, and cancer. The reasons for this are several, including …

In many ways, the lung is an ideal organ for study with positron emission tomography (PET).
First, structure-function relations are homogeneous over larger areas than in other organs …

Millions of people are affected by respiratory diseases, leading to a significant health burden
globally. Because of the current insufficient knowledge of the underlying mechanisms that …

Positron emission tomography (PET) provides three-dimensional images of the distributions
of radionuclides that have been inhaled or injected into the lungs. By using radionuclides …

[en] The major function of the lung is to exchange the respiratory gases, and carbon dioxide.
This vital process is accomplished through the regional matching of ventilation to perfusion …

Nuclear medicine plays a major role in the diagnosis of pulmonary embolism as well as in
other lung diseases. Important innovations have concerned in recent years the equipment …

1770 Objectives PET quantitation in the lung is affected by local density changes due to
respiration and hence needs accurate attenuation maps (AM) for attenuation correction (AC) …

Mijailovich, Srboljub, Steven Treppo, and José G. Venegas. Effects of lung motion and tracer
kinetics corrections on PET imaging of pulmonary function. J. Appl. Physiol. 82 (4): 1154 …

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 …

In the past 10 years, positron emission tomography (PET), usually with 18 F-fluoro-2-deoxy-
D-glucose (FDG), has become an important imaging modality in patients with lung cancer …