Search Tag: FDG PET/CT

2024 19 Jul

  FDG PET/CT is a well-established diagnostic tool widely used in oncology to detect and stage various cancers. It combines anatomical information from CT with functional imaging from PET, revealing disease extent better than CT or MRI alone. However, PET/CT has its limitations, such as poor soft tissue contrast and higher radiation exposure. These...Read more

2017 26 Sep

New research demonstrates that dynamic first-pass contrast-enhanced (CE) perfusion area-detector CT (ADCT) is as useful as FDG PET/CT for the differentiation of metastatic from nonmetastatic lymph nodes and assessment of N stage in patients with non-small cell lung carcinoma (NSCLC). In addition, researchers found that using mathematic methods and...Read more