PET/MR imaging in the detection and characterization of pulmonary lesions: Technical and diagnostic evaluation in comparison to PET/CT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 55, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 724-729

  Rauscher, Isabel ^a   Eiber, Matthias ^a   Fürst, Sebastian ^a   Souvatzoglou, Michael ^a   Nekolla, Stephan G ^a   Ziegler, Sibylle I ^a   Rummeny, Ernst J ^a   Schwaiger, Markus ^a   Beer, Ambros J ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computed tomography; Hybrid imaging; Magnetic resonance imaging; Positron emission tomography; Pulmonary lesion

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; TRACER;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EVALUATION; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LUNG CANCER; LUNG LESION; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; HYBRID IMAGING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PULMONARY LESION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALGORITHMS; CONTRAST MEDIA; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LUNG; LUNG DISEASES; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODAL IMAGING; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHIC IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; RANDOM ALLOCATION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESPIRATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901345242     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnumed.113.129247     Document Type: Article

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