Clinical utility of three-dimensional integrated 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose positron-emission tomography/computed tomography virtual mediastinoscopy

Interactive Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 981-985

  Itano, Hideki ^a   Hirokawa, Yutaka ^b   Takauchi, Koumei ^b  

^a Kure Kyosai Hospital   (Japan)

^b Hiroshima Heiwa Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

18F FDG PET CT; Image fusion; Lung cancer; Three dimensional volume rendering; Virtual PET CT mediastinoscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER STAGING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; FEASIBILITY STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG CANCER; LYMPH NODE BIOPSY; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MEDIASTINUM LYMPH NODE; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOISOTOPE DISTRIBUTION; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VIRTUAL REALITY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOPSY; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPH NODES; MALE; MEDIASTINOSCOPY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77954545100     PISSN: 15699293     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1510/icvts.2009.217794     Document Type: Article

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