Positron emission tomography in Malignant lymphoma.

Is contrast material needed after treatment of malignant lymphoma in positron emission tomography/computed tomography?

PURPOSE Positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) with (18)F-fluorodeoxyglucose is widely used for post-therapeutic surveillance of malignant lymphoma. Debate still exists as to whether intravenous contrast media during the CT stage of a PET/CT scan should be used. The purpose of this study was to investigate the clinical value of contrast agent in PET/CT in patients with lymp...

Positron emission tomography/computed tomography: diagnostic accuracy in lymphoma.

An accurate initial staging of patients with non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) and Hodgkin lymphoma (HL) is critical for the selection of an appropriate treatment. Computed tomography (CT) remains the standard imaging technique, although it is based on anatomic criteria. Positron emission tomography (PET) with 2-deoxy-2-[fluorine-18]fluoro-d-glucose (FDG) provides useful functional information but req...

Imaging Cellular Proliferation in Prostate Cancer with Positron Emission Tomography

Prostate cancer remains a major public health problem worldwide. Imaging plays an important role in the assessment of disease at all its clinical phases, including staging, restaging after definitive therapy, evaluation of therapy response, and prognostication. Positron emission tomography with a number of biologically targeted radiotracers has been demonstrated to have potential diagnostic and...

The place of positron emission tomography imaging in the management of patients with malignant lymphoma.

Positron emission tomography in the evaluation of lymphoma.

Positron emission tomography (PET) using (18)F-fluoro-deoxyglucose (FDG) has emerged in recent years as an important tool for the evaluation of lymphoma patients during their course of disease. At diagnosis, FDG imaging is capable of detecting nodal and extra nodal sites of disease and provides accurate staging. FDG-PET is superior to computed tomography, during and at the end of first-line tre...