Evaluation of regional lung ventilation by Xenon gas-enhanced spectral CT imaging Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Promotor: Nico Buls
Lung cancer causes a large mortality, worldwide and in Flanders, with 3822 cases in 2016. The only technique with proven mortality reduction is lung cancer screening using CT scans. In 2020, a mortality reduction of 26% (men) and 41% (women) was measured in the Dutch-Belgian 'NELSON' study. With this project, physicists and radiologists from the Task Force ‘Lung Cancer Screening’ want to find adequate answers to the following questions: what ...
Lung cancer causes a large mortality, worldwide and in Flanders,
with 3822 cases in 2016. The only technique with proven mortality
reduction is lung cancer screening (LKS) with CT scans. In 2020, a
mortality reduction of 26% (men) and 41% (women) was measured in
the Dutch-Belgian "NELSON" study. The Flemish 'Task Force Lung
Cancer Screening' therefore brings together experts to design and ...
Lung cancer causes a large mortality, worldwide and in Flanders, with 3822 cases in 2016. The only technique with proven mortality reduction is lung cancer screening (LKS) with CT scans. In 2020, a mortality reduction of 26% (men) and 41% (women) was measured in the Dutch-Belgian "NELSON" study. The Flemish 'Task Force Lung Cancer Screening' therefore brings together experts to design and subsequently support an LKS program for population ...
As opposed to conventional radiography, computed tomography provides 3D information of the anatomical structures and tissues of the patient, at a much better low-contrast performance. However, radiation doses associated with CT are up to 40 times higher compared to conventional X-ray examinations. In addition, the number of scans performed increases every year. Since a small but significant risk of radiation induced malignancies is ...
In vivo lung micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) is gaining interest for the longitudinal assessment of experimental disease models in preclinical pulmonary research. Currently, there is a shift towards automated quantitative measuring in clinical imaging as it eliminates variability in qualitative readings and can accurately measure disease progress or treatment response when performing follow-up studies. In this context, artificial ...