Positron emission tomography (PET) is a noninvasive imaging technique that provides a
functional or metabolic assessment of normal tissue or disease conditions. Fluorine 18 …

Purpose: Prostate specific membrane antigen-targeted positron emission tomography/
computerized tomography has the potential to improve the detection and localization of …

Early diagnosis is essential for completely eradicating skin cancer and maximizing patients'
clinical benefits. Emerging optical imaging modalities such as reflectance confocal …

Background Meta-analyses were performed to examine the utility of ultrasonography,
computed tomography (CT), positron emission tomography (PET), and a combination of both …

This book is written as both a text and a reference book. It contains numerous images from
the biological sciences and clinical practice, tables, graphs, and fig ures, as well as …

Purpose To determine the accuracy of positron emission tomography with fluorine-18–
labeled 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG-PET) in detecting axillary nodal metastases in …

Accurate evaluation of primary tumors and cervical lymph node status of squamous cell
carcinoma (SCC) of the oral cavity is important to treatment planning and prognosis …

18F-FDG PET has a high accuracy in staging head and neck cancer, but its role in patients
with clinically and radiographically negative necks (N0) is less clear. In particular, the value …

Background Melanoma is one of the most aggressive forms of skin cancer, with the potential
to metastasise to other parts of the body via the lymphatic system and the bloodstream …

Solitary pulmonary nodule (SPN, intraparenchymal lung mass< 3 cm) is often a diagnostic
challenge. This study was performed to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 18 F …