Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4218952 | Academic Radiology | 2011 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
Dynamic positron emission tomography (PET) imaging of the lung using the radiotracer 2-[fluorine-18]-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (18F-FDG) is an emerging method to assess noninvasively the metabolic activity of pulmonary inflammatory cells. Nevertheless, because of the distinct functional and structural characteristics of inflamed lung tissue standard methods of 18F-FDG analysis can be substantially limited and there is no consensus about the best method for quantification of the 18F-FDG signal for acute or chronic inflammatory lung diseases. This article gives an overview on recent advances in quantitative analysis of 18F-FDG uptake kinetics in non-neoplastic inflamed lung tissue.
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Tobias PhD, Marcos F. MD, PhD, Jose G. PhD,