Using AI, the lung region without cancer on PET/CT images (green-colored region, called noncancerous lung) is automatically extracted. Then, the degree of inflammation within the extracted lung ...

Lung cancer is a serious diagnosis but research is helping to find new treatments. Learn how lung cancer appears in X-rays, CT scans, and biopsies.

PET scans are a form of imaging scan that can take three-dimensional images of the inside of a person’s body. They can help a doctor detect and accurately stage someone’s liver cancer.

You can still have cancer if a PET scan is negative. That’s because some types of tumors are harder for PET scans to detect.

He advises patients navigating lung cancer screening or a lung cancer diagnosis to have the images reviewed by a subspecialty radiologist given the complexity of interpreting chest CT and PET scans.

DURING SCREENING SEASON, which runs from March to December, LUCAS sets off on Mondays from the cancer institute in Morgantown ...

Researchers have developed a bacteria-specific PET tracer that distinguishes lung infections from inflammation, promising ...

In patients with early stage non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), preoperative imaging—radioisotope bone scans, CT of the chest, liver and adrenal glands, and CT or MRI of the brain—is used to ...

A needle biopsy confirmed that he had lung cancer. A full body PET scan confirmed that the cancer was nowhere else in his body.

Lung cancer significantly contributes to the overall cancer burden, with approximately 1,200 new cases and over 800 deaths recorded each year.