Gynecological Cancer

Image fusion helps resolve discrepant findings between FDG-PET and MRI/CT

Published in Cancer Weekly, March 9th, 2004

In patients with gynecological cancers, the technique of image fusion is helpful in discriminating the nature of fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET)-avid lesions, in effectively localizing lesions for computed tomography (CT)-guided biopsy and in providing better surgical or radiotherapy planning.

"This study was performed to prospectively investigate the impact of image fusion in resolving discrepant findings between FDG-PET and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or X-ray CT in patients with gynecological cancers. Discrepant findings were defined as lesions where the difference between the FDG-PET and MRI/CT images was assigned a value...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2004-03-09)

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