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Fluoroscopy
Fluoroscopy is an imaging modality that allows real-time x-ray viewing of a patient with high temporal resolution. It is based on an x-ray image intensifier coupled to a still/video camera. In recent years flat panel detectors (like those used in direct digital radiography) have been replacing t...
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Standardized uptake value (SUV)
The standardized uptake value (SUV) applies to PET imaging of tumors and typically uses the radioligand F18-2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG). The concentration of F18 activity reflects glucose metabolism which is increased in tumor cells and inflammation.
SUV is also known as the dose uptake r...
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Octreotide scintigraphy
Octreotide scintigraphy uses 111In-labeled octreotide, which is a somatostatin analog; it is also known as Octreoscan, a brand name for 111In-labeled pentetreotide. Pentetreotide is a DTPA-conjugated form of octreotide, originally manufactured by Mallinckrodt Nuclear Medicine LLC, which now form...
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HRCT chest (protocol)
High-resolution CT (HRCT) of the chest, also referred to as HRCT chest or HRCT of the lungs, refers to a CT technique in which thin-slice chest images are obtained and post-processed in a high-spatial-frequency reconstruction algorithm. This technique obtains images with exquisite lung detail, w...
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CT chest abdomen-pelvis (protocol)
The CT chest-abdomen-pelvis protocol serves as an outline for an examination of the trunk covering the chest, abdomen and pelvis. It is one of the most common CT examinations conducted in routine and emergencies. It can be combined with a CT angiogram.
Note: This article aims to frame a genera...
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Minimum intensity projection (MinIP)
Minimum intensity projection (MinIP) is a data visualization method that enables detection of low-density structures in a given volume. The algorithm uses all the data in a volume of interest to generate a single bidimensional image, in other words, it consists of projecting the voxel with the l...
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Radiation-induced lung cancer
Radiation-induced lung cancers are a potential long-term complication of radiotherapy to the chest.
Besides lung cancer, sarcomas (osteosarcomas are the most common arising from the irradiated bones, and malignant fibrous histiocytomas the most frequently arising from the soft tissues), breast...
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Maximum intensity projection
Maximum Intensity Projection (MIP) consists of projecting the voxel with the highest attenuation value on every view throughout the volume onto a 2D image 1.
Such an algorithm is rather simple: for each XY coordinate, only the pixel with the highest Hounsfield number along the Z-axis is represe...
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Cardiac MRI
Cardiac MRI consists of using MRI to study heart anatomy, physiology, and pathology.
Advantages
In comparison to other techniques, cardiac MRI offers:
improved soft tissue definition
protocol can be tailored to likely differential diagnoses
a large number of sequences are available
dynamic...
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Xenon-127
Xenon-127 is a radiopharmaceutical principally used when a performing VQ scan. It is not a widely used alternative to xenon-133 with the main advantage being a higher proton energy allowing for post perfusion scanning.
photon energy: 203 KeV
physical half life: 36.3 days
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Quantitative computed tomography (thoracic imaging)
Quantitative computed tomography (QCT) in thoracic imaging has multiple potential applications although often not adopted in standard use in many centers at time of initial writing (2019). These include
quantitating lung intensity / density and airway geometry in the normal adult human lung
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