Thoracic Surgery
Researchers at Kumamoto University publish new data on thoracic surgery
Published in Medical Imaging Law Weekly, April 14th, 2009
In this recently published study, investigators in Honjo, Japan conducted a study "To determine the optimal method of evaluating fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake on positron emission tomography (PET) for the diagnosis of pulmonary malignancies, the sensitivity and specificity of visual assessment and the several semiquantitative analyses were compared. Positron emission tomography data were analyzed for 130 pulmonary nodules from 1 to 3 cm in size (101 malignant and 29 benign nodules)."
"The FDG uptake was measured by maximum standard uptake value (SUVmax), the contrast ratio (CR) of the SUV to the cerebellum (CR brain), and the CR of the SUV to the contralateral lung...
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