Advanced FDG-PET image analysis identifies cell mutations in cancer patients

(Society of Nuclear Medicine) Researchers have used positron emission tomography (PET) to successfully identify genetic cell mutations that can cause lung cancer. The research, published in the featured article of the April 2017 issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, shows that an advanced image analysis technique, radiomics, can noninvasively identify underlying cell mutations in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC).