title: [Diagnostic imaging--recent progress].
abstract: Current advances in the diagnostic imaging for lung cancer includes multidetector-row CT (MDCT), lung cancer screening using low-dose MDCT and fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) imaging. There is no question about the clinical usefulness of MDCT, and the further development of the hardware and the software of MDCT will open new horizons for CT diagnosis. PET is not an alternative modality to CT but a supplementary one, which adds metabolic information to the morphology. Recently, experimental research on the refraction imaging of human lung specimens has been performed with synchrotron radiation. With progressive refinement, this technique may come to have some practical purpose in diagnosing lung cancer in vivo.
authors.affiliation: Dept. of Radiology, Hyogo Medical Center for Adults.
authors.forename: Shuji
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Adachi
authors.forename: Michio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kono
authors.forename: Yoshiki
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Takada
authors.forename: Kayoko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ohbayashi
authors.forename: Shuichi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Monzawa
authors.forename: Akihiro
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Hamanaka
authors.forename: Kensuke
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uotani
authors.forename: Kazuro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimura
authors.forename: Tetsuji
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kadoh
authors.forename: Yoshikazu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Kotani
authors.forename: Setsu
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sakamoto
authors.forename: Michio
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Senda
mesh_terms: D002294:Carcinoma, Squamous Cell / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000556:secondary; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000473:pathology; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18