conclusions pet/ct can provide diagnosis and more accurate staging, location of tumor with its capability in providing the anatomical and physiological information synchronizes. therefore pet/ct plays an important role in oncology. objectives in this paper, we evaluate application of pet/ct for improve oncologic imaging. methods the papers were searched in pubmed and scopus databases with the r...

Despite recent improvements in detection and treatment, prostate cancer continues to be the most common malignancy and the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Thus, although survival rate continues to improve, prostate cancer remains a compelling medical health problem. The major goal of prostate cancer imaging in the next decade will be more accurate disease characterization thro...

ovarian cancer is the most lethal gynecological cancer and about 70% of the patients are advanced stagein the time of diagnosis. decision about management (surgical debulking versus neoadjuant chemotherapy) in ovarian cancer patients is dependent on initial staging by abdominopelvic mdct or mri, so, radiologist expertise on ovarian cancer staging is very important. involvement of mesenteric roo...

Introduction: Accurate staging plays an important role in management of patients with prostate cancer especially in high-risk group. Today, [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 PET/CT should be considered as the preferred imaging tool for treatment planning and initial staging of the disease. Methods: A total number of 628 patients with prostate cancer referred to...

conclusions 18 f fdg pet/ct is a valuable imaging tool in initial and subsequent treatment strategy in patients with breast cancer by providing additional nodal and distant metastasis and may have the promising future potential to be as the imaging modality of choice for accurate assessment of disease extension in breast cancer in routine clinical practice. methods of a total 256 patients with ...

background endometrial carcinoma is a highly prevalent gynecologic malignancy. the international federation of gynecology and obstetrics (figo) staging system underwent significant revision on 2009. key changes in the figo staging system include simplification of stage i endometrial cancer and removal of cervical mucosal invasion as a separate stage. mri is a noninvasive diagnostic method for p...

Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging using 2-deoxy-2-[F-18]fluoro-D-glucose (FDG) has proven valuable in the diagnosis, staging and restaging for many cancers. However, its application for liver cancer has remained limited owing in part to the relatively high background uptake of the tracer in the liver plus the significant variability of the tumor specific uptake in liver cancer among pa...

(PET) and computed tomography (CT) are increasingly used for oncologic imaging. In particular, positron emission tomography with fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (F-FDG PET/CT) is suggested as a more useful modality for accurate, non-invasive imaging in predicting the prognosis and staging of breast cancer (1-4). The combination of positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) p...

Computed tomography (CT) plays a pivotal role in the detection, characterization, and staging of lung cancer and other thoracic malignancies. Since the introduction of clinically viable dual-energy CT techniques, substantial evidence has accumulated on the use of this modality for imaging chest malignancies. This article describes the principles of dual-energy CT along with suitable image acqui...

In oncology, staging forms the basis for prognostic consideration and directly influences patient care by determining the therapeutic approach. Cross-sectional imaging techniques, especially when combined with PET information, play an important role in cancer staging. With the recent introduction of integrated whole-body PET/MRI into clinical practice, a novel metabolic-anatomic imaging techniq...