GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PULMONARY IMAGING
Pulmonary Anatomy
Solitary pulmonary nodule evaluation
Computed Tomography of the Chest
Helical CT of the chest
High resolution CT of the lungs
- Air trapping
- Intralobular interstitial thickening
- Ground glass attenuation
- Honeycombing
- Mosaic Pattern of Lung Attenuation
- Parenchymal Bands
- Peribronchovascular interstitum
- Sub-pleural lines
- Tree-in-bud appearance
MRI of the thorax
- Spin Echo Imaging
- Gradient Echo Imaging
- Fast Gradient Echo Imaging
- Gradient Echo Imaging with K-space Segmentation
- Echo Planar Imaging
- Myocardial Tagging
