Assessment of the correlation between pulmonary parenchymal inflammation and pulmonary function test indices in COPD patients using partial volume corrected FDG-PET/CT parameters

Conclusions: These data demonstrate that patients with lower levels of FEV1 and FEV1/FVC ratio have greater degrees of pulmonary parenchymal inflammation based on FDG-PET/CT quantitative assessment. These correlations are more statistically significant when pulmonary FDG uptake is corrected for the partial volume effect, which shows the importance of partial volume correction.

Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - May 23, 2018 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Jahangiri, P., Pournazari, K., Khosravi, M., Arani, L., Al-zaghal, A., Werner, T., Alavi, A., Torigian, D. Tags: Outcomes/Infectious Disease/Pulmonary II Source Type: research