Assessment of mediastinal tumors using SUVmax and volumetric parameters on FDG PET/CT

Assessment of mediastinal tumors using SUVmax and volumetric parameters on FDG PET/CT

Objective(s): This study aimed to evaluate the role of pretreatment SUVmax and volumetric FDG positron emission tomography (PET) parameters in the differentiation between benign and malignant mediastinal tumors. In addition, we investigated whether pretreatment SUVmax and volumetric FDG-PET paramete...

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Main Authors: Takahiro Morita, Mitsuaki Tatsumi, Mana Ishibashi, Kayako Isohashi, Hiroki Kato, Osamu Honda, Eku Shimosegawa, Noriyuki Tomiyama, Jun Hatazawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mashhad University of Medical Sciences 2017-01-01
Series:Asia Oceania Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Biology
Subjects:
FDG PET/CT
mediastinal tumor
metabolic tumor volume
total lesion glycolysis
Online Access:http://aojnmb.mums.ac.ir/article_7996_82f5164fc2d085f9b3d679d007e70ade.pdf

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