General

GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS IN PULMONARY IMAGING

Pulmonary Anatomy

• Pulmonary Anatomy
• Parenchymal Anatomy
• Heart and Great Vessels
• Monitoring and Therapeutic Devices

Solitary pulmonary nodule evaluation

Computed Tomography of the Chest

Helical CT of the chest

• Maximum Intensity Images
• Minimum Intensity Images
• Ray-Sum Projection Images

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
  
• Truncation and cropping artifacts
  

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

Percutaneous transthoracic needle biopsy