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Functional imaging in lung cancer
Lung cancer represents an increasingly frequent cancer diagnosis worldwide. An increasing awareness on smoking cessation as an important mean to reduce lung cancer incidence and mortality, an increasing number of therapy options and a steady focus on early diagnosis and adequate staging have resulte...
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BlackWell Publishing Ltd
2014
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4413794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24289258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12104 |
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author | Harders, S W Balyasnikowa, S Fischer, B M |
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description | Lung cancer represents an increasingly frequent cancer diagnosis worldwide. An increasing awareness on smoking cessation as an important mean to reduce lung cancer incidence and mortality, an increasing number of therapy options and a steady focus on early diagnosis and adequate staging have resulted in a modestly improved survival. For early diagnosis and precise staging, imaging, especially positron emission tomography combined with CT (PET/CT), plays an important role. Other functional imaging modalities such as dynamic contrast-enhanced CT (DCE-CT) and diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DW-MRI) have demonstrated promising results within this field. The purpose of this review is to provide the reader with a brief and balanced introduction to these three functional imaging modalities and their current or potential application in the care of patients with lung cancer. |
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spelling | pubmed-44137942015-05-05 Functional imaging in lung cancer Harders, S W Balyasnikowa, S Fischer, B M Clin Physiol Funct Imaging Invited Reviews Lung cancer represents an increasingly frequent cancer diagnosis worldwide. An increasing awareness on smoking cessation as an important mean to reduce lung cancer incidence and mortality, an increasing number of therapy options and a steady focus on early diagnosis and adequate staging have resulted in a modestly improved survival. For early diagnosis and precise staging, imaging, especially positron emission tomography combined with CT (PET/CT), plays an important role. Other functional imaging modalities such as dynamic contrast-enhanced CT (DCE-CT) and diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DW-MRI) have demonstrated promising results within this field. The purpose of this review is to provide the reader with a brief and balanced introduction to these three functional imaging modalities and their current or potential application in the care of patients with lung cancer. BlackWell Publishing Ltd 2014-09 2013-12-01 /pmc/articles/PMC4413794/ /pubmed/24289258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12104 Text en © 2013 The Authors. Clinical Physiology and Functional Imaging published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Scandinavian Society of Clinical Physiology and Nuclear Medicine. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Invited Reviews Harders, S W Balyasnikowa, S Fischer, B M Functional imaging in lung cancer |
title | Functional imaging in lung cancer |
title_full | Functional imaging in lung cancer |
title_fullStr | Functional imaging in lung cancer |
title_full_unstemmed | Functional imaging in lung cancer |
title_short | Functional imaging in lung cancer |
title_sort | functional imaging in lung cancer |
topic | Invited Reviews |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4413794/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24289258 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cpf.12104 |
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