Frood, R, McDermott, G and Scarsbrook, A orcid.org/0000-0002-4243-032X (2018) Respiratory-gated PET/CT for pulmonary lesion characterisation—promises and problems. British Journal of Radiology, 91 (1086). 20170640. ISSN 0007-1285
Abstract
2-deoxy-2-(¹⁸Fluorine)-fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) PET/CT is an integral part of lung carcinoma staging and frequently used in the assessment of solitary pulmonary nodules. However, a limitation of conventional three-dimensional PET/CT when imaging the thorax is its susceptibility to motion artefact, which blurs the signal from the lesion resulting in inaccurate representation of size and metabolic activity. Respiratory gated (four-dimensional) PET/CT aims to negate the effects of motion artefact and provide a more accurate interpretation of pulmonary nodules and lymphadenopathy. There have been recent advances in technology and a shift from traditional hardware to more streamlined software methods for respiratory gating which should allow more widespread use of respiratory-gating in the future. The purpose of this article is to review the evidence surrounding four-dimensional PET/CT in pulmonary lesion characterisation.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2018 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology. Reproduced in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy. |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Medicine and Health (Leeds) > School of Medicine (Leeds) > Inst of Biomed & Clin Sciences (LIBACS) (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2018 09:51 |
Last Modified: | 05 Feb 2019 01:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | British Institute of Radiology |
Identification Number: | 10.1259/bjr.20170640 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:126685 |