On when should a patient get a PET scan for lung cancer evaluation, Dr Mutua says if a chest x-ray or chest CT scan reveals suspicious findings, a PET scan is the next appropriate step.

Interstitial lung disease is characterized by scarring ... Dr. Watanabe and his team focused on PET/CT scan, a nuclear imaging test that is able to detect inflammation in the whole body.

While unvaccinated macaque monkeys exhibited signs of severe lung inflammation and disease following the Mycobacterium  tuberculosis infection (warm colors indicate inflammation and disease, bottom ...

Typically, patients with lung cancer will be started on a treatment plan—such as chemotherapy—and then wait 12 weeks to have a CT or PET scan to see whether the treatment has shrunk the tumor ...

Medically reviewed by Gagandeep Brar, MD Lung cancer liver metastases are tumors that form in the liver from cancer cells ...

Major reductions in radiation doses from PET/CT scans can be achieved by modifying the acquisition parameters for CT. Conventional radiographic examinations such as chest, abdominal and bone X-rays ...

In an age where preventive health care has become a priority for many, early detection of potential health concerns -- ...

The Nodify CDT test performance was also compared to that of positron emission tomography (PET) scans, an imaging modality commonly used to assess lung nodule risk. In the 222 patients receiving PET ...

The paper, published in Nature Communications, shows therapy-resistant non-small cell lung cancer tumours 'lit up like a Christmas tree' on PET scans when the radiotracer was injected. Tim Witney ...

Dr. Watanabe and his teams from Niigata University have revealed that PET/CT image analysis using artificial intelligence (AI ...