This issue of Radiologic Clinics will focus on the essentials of thoracic imaging. Topics include lung cancer screening and staging systems, radiation dose techniques, nodule characterization, PET/CT in the thorax, MDCT and MR evaluation of thoracic aorta, pulmonary emboli and perfusion imaging, interstital pneumonias, emphysema and airway imaging, post-operative chest, and thoracic infections in the immunocompromised host.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. CME Accreditation Page - p. 6 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. 7 7. Preface - p. 8 8. Radiation Dose Optimization and Thoracic Computed Tomography - p. 9 9. PET/CT in the Thorax - p. 18 10. Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose Computed Tomography - p. 24 11. Nodule Characterization - p. 37 12. The Clinical Staging of Lung Cancer Through Imaging - p. 51 13. Imaging the Post-Thoracotomy Patient - p. 58 14. The Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias - p. 70 15. Thoracic Infections in Immunocompromised Patients - p. 81 16. Multidetector Computed Tomographic Imaging in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 91 17. Congenital Lung Anomalies in Children and Adults - p. 104 18. New Insights in Thromboembolic Disease - p. 119 19. Thoracic Aorta (Multidetector Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Evaluation) - p. 127 20. Index - p. 139
This issue of Radiologic Clinics will focus on the essentials of thoracic imaging. Topics include lung cancer screening and staging systems, radiation dose techniques, nodule characterization, PET/CT in the thorax, MDCT and MR evaluation of thoracic aorta, pulmonary emboli and perfusion imaging, interstital pneumonias, emphysema and airway imaging, post-operative chest, and thoracic infections in the immunocompromised host.
1. Cover image - p. 1 2. Title page - p. 2 3. Table of Contents - p. 3 4. Contributors - p. 4 5. CME Accreditation Page - p. 6 6. Forthcoming Issues - p. 7 7. Preface - p. 8 8. Radiation Dose Optimization and Thoracic Computed Tomography - p. 9 9. PET/CT in the Thorax - p. 18 10. Lung Cancer Screening with Low-Dose Computed Tomography - p. 24 11. Nodule Characterization - p. 37 12. The Clinical Staging of Lung Cancer Through Imaging - p. 51 13. Imaging the Post-Thoracotomy Patient - p. 58 14. The Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias - p. 70 15. Thoracic Infections in Immunocompromised Patients - p. 81 16. Multidetector Computed Tomographic Imaging in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease - p. 91 17. Congenital Lung Anomalies in Children and Adults - p. 104 18. New Insights in Thromboembolic Disease - p. 119 19. Thoracic Aorta (Multidetector Computed Tomography and Magnetic Resonance Evaluation) - p. 127 20. Index - p. 139
