[PDF][PDF] Intermodality, retrospective image registration in the thorax

FH Fahey, NY Jeffrey, HD Gage… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1995 - Soc Nuclear Med
METhODS Cr and PET 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG) studiesof six patients, obtained
during a clinical study of the efficacy of PET scanning in lung cancer staging, provided the …

PET-CT: accuracy of PET and CT spatial registration of lung lesions

C Cohade, M Osman, LT Marshall, RL Wahl - European journal of nuclear …, 2003 - Springer
PET-CT scanners offer the unique ability to acquire PET and CT data with rapid full body
registration. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of spatial registration …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluation of emission-transmission registration in thoracic PET

JN Yu, FH Fahey, BA Harkness, HD Gage… - Journal of Nuclear …, 1994 - Soc Nuclear Med
Methods: The data from 17 FDG myocardialstudieswere eval uated. Prior to injection, a
transmission study was acquired for 15 min using a^ Ge/^ Ga ring source. The location of the …

PET-CT image co-registration in the thorax: influence of respiration

GW Goerres, E Kamel, TNH Heidelberg… - European journal of …, 2002 - Springer
Because anatomical information on fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) whole-body
positron emission tomography (PET) images is limited, combination with structural imaging …

[PDF][PDF] PET in lung cancer

RE Coleman - Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 1999 - Soc Nuclear Med
An estimated 180,000 new cases of lung cancer will be diag nosed in the US this year, and
lung cancer accounts for approximately 25% of all cancer deaths. Most lung cancers are …

PET/CT in the thorax: pitfalls

MT Truong, C Viswanathan, BW Carter… - Radiologic …, 2014 - radiologic.theclinics.com
Positron emission tomography (PET) using [18F]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG) as the
radiopharmaceutical agent was introduced in the late 1990s and has been widely used in …

Accuracy of image coregistration of pulmonary lesions in patients with non-small cell lung cancer using an integrated PET/CT system

GW Goerres, E Kamel, B Seifert, C Burger… - Journal of nuclear …, 2002 - Soc Nuclear Med
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of image coregistration of PET and
CT (PET/CT) images in patients with lung lesions and the influence of the breathing protocol …

PET evaluation of lung cancer

T Bunyaviroch, RE Coleman - Journal of nuclear medicine, 2006 - Soc Nuclear Med
In the last hundred years, lung cancer has risen from a reportable disease to the most
common cause of death from cancer in both men and women in developed countries (1) …

Use of combined PET/CT images for radiotherapy planning: initial experiences in lung cancer

PH Jarritt, AR Hounsell, KJ Carson… - The British Journal of …, 2005 - birpublications.org
The potential role of positron emission tomography (PET) in radiotherapy still requires
careful evaluation as it becomes increasingly integrated into the radiotherapy planning …

Camera-based PET: the best is yet to come

RE Coleman - The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 1997 - search.proquest.com
Radionuclide imaging provides a sensitive method to characterize in vivo chemistry.
Imaging studies of bone mineral turnover using 99mTc-MDP, transferrin receptors using …