Diagnostic accuracy of virtual 18F-FDG PET/CT bronchoscopy for the detection of lymph node metastases in non-small cell lung cancer patients

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 52, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1520-1525

  Herbrik, Michael ^a   Treffert, Jon ^b   Geiger, Bernhard ^c   Riegger, Carolin ^a,d   Hartung, Verena ^a   Rosenbaum Krumme, Sandra Julia ^a   Forsting, Michael ^a   Antoch, Gerald ^d   Heusner, Till A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ESSEN   (Germany)

^b Siemens Healthcare   (United States)

^c SIEMENS CORPORATE RESEARCH   (United States)

^d HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

18F FDG; Bronchial carcinoma; Lung cancer; Non small cell lung cancer; PET CT; Virtual bronchoscopy

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRONCHOSCOPY; BRONCHUS; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST ACCURACY STUDY; FALSE NEGATIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUNG NON SMALL CELL CANCER; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOACTIVITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VIRTUAL COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY BRONCHOSCOPY;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRONCHOSCOPY; CARCINOMA, NON-SMALL-CELL LUNG; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 80053473214     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.111.092593     Document Type: Article

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