Dr
Giuseppe Boni
(Nuclear Medicìne Unit, Department of Oncology and Radiology, A.O.U. Pisa)
06/09/2009, 11:30
In the last ten years, the widespread use of minimally invasive thoracic surgical procedures has prompted the development of nuclear medicine techniques for the pre-operative imaging and intra-operative probe detection of pulmonary lesions and mediastinal sentinel and metastastic nodes.
Moreover, the introduction in clinical practice of hybrid imaging devices like SPET/CT and PET/CT has...
Dr
Chumy Nwogu
(Roswell Park Cancer Institute)
06/09/2009, 12:00
Radioguided techniques to enhance the effectiveness of various thoracic procedures are being reported with increasing frequency in the literature. This includes the localization of pulmonary nodules for thoracoscopic resection, sentinel lymph node mapping, and attempts to identify all lymphatic micrometastatic disease in lung cancer patients.
The radiotracers that have been used clinically...
