Generally morphologic imaging (such as CT, MRI and US) and functional imaging (such as gallium scintigraphy and FDG-PET) are used for malignant lymphoma. Especially, CT and FDG-PET have quite important roles for multicenter studies of treatment according to the response criteria of lymphoma. In...
(18)F-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (~(18)F-FDG)を用いた陽電子放出断層撮像検査(positron emission tomography:PET)は悪性腫瘍のスクリーニング,病期診断,転移・再発診断に有用である.近年では治療効果判定や予後予測の目的でPET/computed tomography(CT)検査を複数回実施し,病変の変化を継続的に...