Detecting Pulmonary Nodules in Lung Cancer Patients Using Whole Body FDG PET/CT, High-resolution Lung Reformat of FDG PET/CT, or Diagnostic Breath Hold Chest CT

• Published in: Academic radiology Vol. 23; no. 9; p. 1123
• Main Authors: Flavell, Robert R, Behr, Spencer C, Mabray, Marc C, Hernandez-Pampaloni, Miguel, Naeger, David M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States 01.09.2016
• Subjects: Aged; Algorithms; Breath Holding; Female; Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; Humans; Lung - diagnostic imaging; Lung Neoplasms - diagnostic imaging; Male; Multiple Pulmonary Nodules - diagnostic imaging; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography - methods; Radiopharmaceuticals; Reproducibility of Results; Retrospective Studies; Whole Body Imaging - methods; non-small cell lung cancer; pulmonary nodule; breath hold; PET/CT; high-resolution reconstruction

Pulmonary nodules can be missed on the non-breath hold computed tomography (CT) portion of 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET/CT), and for this reason prior studies have advocated for routinely performing dedicated breath hold CT of the chest in addition...