Amsterdam, The Netherlands: A new type of diagnostic imaging – which can better differentiate benign lung lesions from those which are cancerous – could be used to prevent unnecessary surgery by enabling more accurate diagnosis of the disease.

A study by Belgian researchers, which will be presented today (25 September 2011) at the European Respiratory Society’s Annual Congress in Amsterdam, found that the new technique can more accurately determine whether people have the disease when compared with the current method of PET-CT scans.