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Multi-modal Pulmonary Imaging: Using Complementary Information from CT and Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI to Evaluate Lung Structure-Function
Published on: April 12, 2024
Disease activity in COPD: time to make imaging biomarkers a PET project?
Stephen Milne1,2,3, Rachel L Eddy1,2, Don D Sin1,2
1Centre for Heart Lung Innovation, St Paul's Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
Abstract:
FDG uptake on PET/CT is a potential biomarker of pulmonary inflammation in COPD and may reflect disease activity, but does it have the characteristics of a "good" biomarker? https://bit.ly/3AXheEZ.
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