Atherosclerosis is a common age-related disorder and is the major cause of morbidity and
mortality in the developed countries. Structural imaging techniques, such as CT and MRI …

Purpose Positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) is a resource-
demanding imaging modality with increasing popularity in the workup of patients with …

Purpose In recent years, multiple studies have demonstrated the value of volumetric FDG-
PET/CT parameters as independent prognostic factors in patients with non-small cell lung …

Background Positron emission tomography (PET) with 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) has
shown to be useful in diagnosis, staging and monitoring of cardiac sarcoidosis (CS) but its …

The partial volume effect (PVE) is considered as one of the major degrading factors
impacting image quality and hampering the accuracy of quantitative PET imaging in clinical …

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 …

In the past decade, Positron Emission Tomography (PET) has become a routinely used
methodology for the assessment of solid tumors, which can detect functional abnormalities …

Partial volume effects (PVEs) are caused by the limited spatial resolution of the PET system,
which results in a blurry appearance of the reconstructed PET images and, as a …

The introduction of FDG as a radiotracer for imaging brain function in normal and disease
states has led to the survival of PET as a viable and thriving imaging modality over the past 4 …

The progress made in PET imaging during the last few decades has tremendously
expanded the applications of this imaging modality in various domains in clinical and …