While unvaccinated macaque monkeys exhibited signs of severe lung inflammation and disease following the Mycobacterium  tuberculosis infection (warm colors indicate inflammation and disease, bottom ...

Interstitial lung disease is characterized by scarring ... Dr. Watanabe and his team focused on PET/CT scan, a nuclear imaging test that is able to detect inflammation in the whole body.

“Bev has significant kyphoscoliosis (curvature of the spine that’s both sideways and forward/backward), which made the biopsy ...

On when should a patient get a PET scan for lung cancer evaluation, Dr Mutua says if a chest x-ray or chest CT scan reveals suspicious findings, a PET scan is the next appropriate step.

Identifying lung cancer at its earliest stage before symptoms develop allows for earlier treatment and the potential for cure ...

Typically, patients with lung cancer will be started on a treatment plan—such as chemotherapy—and then wait 12 weeks to have a CT or PET scan to see whether the treatment has shrunk the tumor ...

A new method of scanning lungs is able to show in real time how air moves in and out of the lungs as people take a breath in patients with asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and ...

Biodesix (BDSX) announced a new post-market clinical validation study was published in CHEST Pulmonary Journal that reaffirms the previously ...

Dr. Watanabe and his teams from Niigata University have revealed that PET/CT image analysis using artificial intelligence (AI ...

The Nodify CDT test measures levels of seven autoantibodies associated with lung cancer that can be detected in blood samples of patients with indeterminate lung nodules. Prior studies have ...