Rathan M Subramaniam,Val J Lowe
Rathan M Subramaniam
This article describes the use of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET in patients who have head and neck cancer for assessment of therapy response, detection of locoregional recurrence and distant metastasis, and surveillance. ...
Squamous Cell Carcinoma: Initial Diagnosis and Staging with PET/CT [0.03%]
扁平细胞癌的初始诊断和分期的正电子发射断层影像/计算机体层摄影检查研究
Gaurang V Shah,Ka Kit Wong,Dheeraj Gandhi et al.
Gaurang V Shah et al.
Squamous cell carcinoma is the most frequent malignancy of the head and neck region, accounting for 5% of all malignant tumors worldwide. Accurate staging at diagnosis is critical for selection of appropriate treatment strategy. A variety o...
Medhat M Osman,Mark A Varvares,Nghi C Nguyen
Medhat M Osman
Positron emission tomography (PET) with FDG plays an important growing rule in staging, restaging, monitoring treatment, and predicting prognosis in patients who have head and neck cancers. This article provides various examples of nonmalig...
Todd M Blodgett,Alex Ryan,Aref Akbarpouranbadr et al.
Todd M Blodgett et al.
Combined PET/CT has been in existence clinically for nearly 7 years since development and initial evaluation from 1998 to 2001. Combined PET/CT offers advantages over PET and CT acquired on separate devices, including consolidation of imagi...
Barton F Branstetter th
Barton F Branstetter th
The rise of combined positron emission tomography (PET)/CT has stimulated the need for radiologists who are familiar with both nuclear medicine and anatomic imaging techniques, so that a single interpreting physician can provide a consisten...
PET/CT Protocols and Practical Issues for the Evaluation of Patients with Head and Neck Cancer [0.03%]
头颈癌患者评估的PET/CT应用规范与实际问题
Terence Z Wong,I Michael Fras
Terence Z Wong
This article presents general considerations for optimum PET/CT imaging in patients with head and neck disease. Based on these considerations, the clinical PET/CT imaging protocols currently used at the authors' center are described. ...
Thomas C Kwee,Habib Zaidi
Thomas C Kwee
Annemieke S Littooij,Drew A Torigian,Thomas C Kwee et al.
Annemieke S Littooij et al.
Hybrid PET/magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, which combines the excellent anatomic information and functional MR imaging parameters with the metabolic and molecular information obtained with PET, may be superior to PET/computed tomography or...
Blood Oxygenation Level-dependent/Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging: Underpinnings, Practice, and Perspectives [0.03%]
基于血氧水平的依赖的功能磁共振成像：基础、实践和前景
Jeroen C W Siero,Alex Bhogal,J Martijn Jansma
Jeroen C W Siero
Imaging studies using blood oxygenation level-dependent (BOLD) functional magnetic resonance (fMR) imaging have provided significant insight into the functional workings of the human brain. BOLD fMR imaging-based techniques have matured to ...
Jaco J M Zwanenburg,Anja G van der Kolk,Peter R Luijten
Jaco J M Zwanenburg
This work describes the potential and challenges of ultra-high-field (≥7 T) MRI for clinical research. Ultra-high-field substantially increases the signal-to-noise ratio, or, alternatively, spatial resolution or imaging speed. Besides, ima...