Methods for staging non-small cell lung cancer: Diagnosis and management of lung cancer: American College of Chest Physicians evidence-based clinical practice …

GA Silvestri, AV Gonzalez, MA Jantz, ML Margolis… - Chest, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Correctly staging lung cancer is important because the treatment options and
prognosis differ significantly by stage. Several noninvasive imaging studies and invasive …

18F-FDG uptake in lung, breast, and colon cancers: molecular biology correlates and disease characterization

H Jadvar, A Alavi, SS Gambhir - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2009 - Soc Nuclear Med
It is hoped that in the not too distant future, noninvasive imaging–based molecular
interrogation and characterization of tumors can improve our fundamental understanding of …

Diagnostic and clinical significance of F-18-FDG-PET/CT thyroid incidentalomas

F Bertagna, G Treglia, A Piccardo… - The Journal of Clinical …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Context: Thyroid incidentaloma diagnosed by 2-[18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose positron
emission tomography/computed tomography (F-18-FDG-PET/CT) is defined as a thyroid …

When should we recommend use of dual time-point and delayed time-point imaging techniques in FDG PET?

G Cheng, DA Torigian, H Zhuang, A Alavi - European journal of nuclear …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract FDG PET and PET/CT are now widely used in oncological imaging for tumor
characterization, staging, restaging, and response evaluation. However, numerous benign …

Assessing dynamic metabolic heterogeneity in non-small cell lung cancer patients via ultra-high sensitivity total-body [18F] FDG PET/CT imaging: quantitative analysis …

DQ Wang, X Zhang, H Liu, B Qiu, SR Liu… - European Journal of …, 2022 - Springer
Purpose This study aimed to quantitatively assess [18F] FDG uptake in primary tumor (PT)
and metastatic lymph node (mLN) in newly diagnosed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) …

[HTML][HTML] Advanced kinetic modelling strategies: towards adoption in clinical PET imaging

FA Kotasidis, C Tsoumpas, A Rahmim - Clinical and Translational Imaging, 2014 - Springer
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a highly quantitative imaging modality that can probe
a number of functional and biological processes, depending on the radio-labelled tracer …

Use of dual-point fluorodeoxyglucose imaging to enhance sensitivity and specificity

O Schillaci - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2012 - Elsevier
Positron emission tomography (PET) and positron emission tomography/computed
tomography imaging with fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) are widely used as a powerful …

Clinical value of 18F-FDG PET-CT in detecting primary tumor for patients with carcinoma of unknown primary

A Han, J Xue, M Hu, J Zheng, X Wang - Cancer epidemiology, 2012 - Elsevier
Objective: To investigate the clinical value in detecting occult primary tumors with 18F-FDG
PET-CT whole body imaging. Methods: 120 patients with unknown primary origin were …

Diagnosis and staging of lung cancer

JD Hyer, G Silvestri - Clinics in chest medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
The impact of lung cancer on the industrialized world is immense. Undeniably, the greatest
risk factor is smoking and, because of increased numbers of women who smoke, lung …

[HTML][HTML] Clinical significance of dual-time-point 18F-FDG PET imaging in resectable non-small cell lung cancer

K Shimizu, R Okita, S Saisho, T Yukawa… - Annals of Nuclear …, 2015 - Springer
Objective The maximal standardized uptake value (SUVmax) of pulmonary lesions on dual-
time-point (DTP) fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) has been …