Pitfalls in PET/CT imaging

• Published in: Journal of physics. Conference series Vol. 317; no. 1; pp. 012015 - 6
• Main Authors: Rondogianni, Ph, Papathanasiou, N, Giannopoulou, Ch
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bristol IOP Publishing 23.09.2011
• Subjects: Computed tomography; Computer aided tomography; Differentiation; Fluorine; Monitoring; Physics; Positron emission; Tomography; Uptakes; Utilities

PET with 2-[fluorine 18] fluoro-2-deoxy-d-glucose (FDG), has been a clinical tool for the evaluation of various cancers providing valuable metabolic information clinically helpful in the diagnosis, initial staging, therapy monitoring and restaging. However, FDG is not specific for neoplastic process...