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Table 1 Patient eligibility criteria

From: Rationale and design of a prospective study on the first integrated PET/dual-energy CT system for staging and image-based radiation therapy planning of lung cancer

 

Inclusion criteria

 

Exclusion criteria

1

Subject must have a suspected SCLC or NSCLC

1

Subject is a pregnant or nursing female

2

Subject must be aged 18–90 years

2

Subject is in acute unstable condition

3

Subject must have been referred for a clinically indicated PET/CT

3

Subject is unwilling to comply with the requirements of the protocol

4

Subject must provide written informed consent before any study-related procedures being performed

4

By testing (serum or urine βHCG) within 24 h before contrast, agent administration, or by surgical sterilization, or post-menopausal, with minimum one-year history without menses

5

Subject must be willing to comply with all clinical study procedures

5

Subject has an allergy against iodinated contrast agents and cannot be premedicated

  

6

Subject has impaired renal function (eGFR < 30 mL/min × 1.73 m2)

  

7

Subject has an acute psychiatric disorder or is cognitively impaired

  

8

Subject is using or is dependent on substances of abuse

  1. SCLC small-cell lung cancer, NSCLC non-small-cell lung cancer, PET/CT positron emission tomography / computed tomography, βHCG β-human chorionic gonadotropin, eGFR estimated glomerular filtration rate