Can positron emission tomography work in the African tuberculosis epidemic?
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The greatest health problem in sub-Saharan Africa is the complex of HIV and TB. PET has been primarily developed to look at cancer but can PET be used for this major health problem. F-18FDG has a high sensitivity in TB but the pattern of uptake is not specific. Attempts to improve the specificity of F-18 FDG imaging in the context of TB by using dual time scanning has not proved useful. There is evidence that F18 FDG can be used to monitor the effectiveness of anti-tubercular therapy but the number of patients studied remains small. What is needed is the development of affordable tracers which are more Sensitive and specific to TB maybe using generator produced products such as Ga-68
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Nuclear medicine communications
دوره 32 4 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011