A tabulated summary of the FDG PET literature

SS Gambhir, J Czernin, J Schwimmer… - Journal of nuclear …, 2001 - Soc Nuclear Med
This special supplement to The Journal of Nuclear Medicine is a detailed tabulation of
literature on FDG PET in oncology (1993–June 2000), cardiology (1986–June 2000), and …

Clinical role of FDG PET in evaluation of cancer patients

L Kostakoglu, H Agress Jr, SJ Goldsmith - Radiographics, 2003 - pubs.rsna.org
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a diagnostic imaging technique that allows
identification of biochemical and physiologic alterations in tumors. Use of PET performed …

Clinical score for predicting recurrence after hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer: analysis of 1001 consecutive cases

Y Fong, J Fortner, RL Sun, MF Brennan… - Annals of …, 1999 - journals.lww.com
Objective There is a need for clearly defined and widely applicable clinical criteria for the
selection of patients who may benefit from hepatic resection for metastatic colorectal cancer …

Five-year survival after resection of hepatic metastases from colorectal cancer in patients screened by positron emission tomography with F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose …

FG Fernandez, JA Drebin, DC Linehan… - Annals of …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To report the first 5-year overall survival results in patients with colorectal
carcinoma metastatic to the liver who have undergone hepatic resection after staging with …

Colorectal Liver Metastases: CT, MR Imaging, and PET for Diagnosis—Meta-analysis1

S Bipat, MS van Leeuwen, EFI Comans, MEJ Pijl… - Radiology, 2005 - pubs.rsna.org
PURPOSE: To perform a meta-analysis to obtain sensitivity estimates of computed
tomography (CT), magnetic resonance (MR) imaging, and fluorine 18 fluorodeoxyglucose …

PET/CT: Form and Function1

TM Blodgett, CC Meltzer, DW Townsend - Radiology, 2007 - pubs.rsna.org
Functional imaging with positron emission tomography (PET) is playing an increasingly
important role in the diagnosis and staging of malignant disease, image-guided therapy …

Molecular imaging and its biological applications

ME Phelps - Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging, 2004 - Springer
This book is written as both a text and a reference book. It contains numerous images from
the biological sciences and clinical practice, tables, graphs, and fig ures, as well as …

PET imaging in oncology

R Bar-Shalom, AY Valdivia, MD Blaufox - Seminars in nuclear medicine, 2000 - Elsevier
The role of positron emission tomography (PET) during the past decade has evolved rapidly
from a pure research tool to a methodology of enormous clinical potential. Perhaps the most …

[PDF][PDF] A meta-analysis of the literature for whole-body FDG PET detection of recurrent colorectal cancer

RH Huebner, KC Park, JE Shepherd… - Journal of Nuclear …, 2000 - Soc Nuclear Med
A meta-analysis of the literature for the use of FDG PET in the detection of recurrent
colorectal cancer (CRC) was conducted to evaluate the quality of the reported studies …

Does the novel PET/CT imaging modality impact on the treatment of patients with metastatic colorectal cancer of the liver?

M Selzner, TF Hany, P Wildbrett, L McCormack… - Annals of …, 2004 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To compare the diagnostic value of contrast-enhanced CT (ceCT) and 2-[18-F]-
fluoro-2-deoxyglucose-PET/CT in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer to the liver …