GENERAL RADIOLOGY

Immune PET Imaging

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Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT is sensitive to metabolic, immune-related, and structural changes that can occur in tumors in cancer immunotherapy. Unique mechanisms of immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) occasionally make response evaluation…

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PET Imaging for Head and Neck Cancers

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Head and neck cancers are commonly encountered cancers in clinical practice in the United States. Fluorine-18-fluorodeoxyglucose ( 18 F-FDG) PET/CT has been clinically applied in staging, occult primary tumor detection,…

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Upstream Machine Learning in Radiology

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Machine learning (ML) and Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to dramatically improve radiology practice at multiple stages of the imaging pipeline. Most of the attention has been garnered by…

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Precision Nuclear Medicine

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The clinical management of melanoma patients has been rapidly evolving with the introduction of new targeted immuno-oncology (IO) therapeutics. The current diagnostic paradigms for melanoma patients begins with the histopathologic…

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PET Imaging for Prostate Cancer

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The role of PET imaging with 11 C-choline and 18 F-fluciclovine in evaluating patients with prostate cancer (PCa) has become more important over the years and has been incorporated into…

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PET Imaging of Neuroendocrine Tumors

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Key points • SSTR-PET has significantly improved staging of NETs compared to historical radiotracers. • Knowledge of NET pathology is essential for selection of appropriate PET radiotracer. • PET imaging…

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