Improved detection and characterization of adrenal disease with PET-CT

• Published in: Radiographics Vol. 27; no. 3; p. 755
• Main Authors: Elaini, A Bassem, Shetty, Sanjay K, Chapman, Vernon M, Sahani, Dushyant V, Boland, Giles W, Sweeney, Ann T, Maher, Michael M, Slattery, James T, Mueller, Peter R, Blake, Michael A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.05.2007
• Subjects: Adrenal Gland Diseases - diagnosis; Adult; Diagnosis, Differential; Female; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Humans; Image Enhancement - methods; Male; Middle Aged; Positron-Emission Tomography - methods; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Practice Patterns, Physicians; Radiopharmaceuticals; Tomography, X-Ray Computed - methods

Positron emission tomography (PET)-computed tomography (CT) combines complementary modalities, thereby providing useful structural and functional information for the detection and characterization of a variety of conditions affecting the adrenal gland. The coregistered information provided by PET-CT...