Positron emission tomography (PET) is still generally not available in the UK; however, there are plans to introduce a national service in England from April 2008. Plans are also at an advanced stage in Scotland and Wales. The main uses of PET are in preoperative staging of lung cancer, detection of recurrent colorectal cancer, and management of patients with lymphoma. Although these provide th...

Positron Emission Tomography (PET) experienced accelerated development and has become an established method for medical research and clinical routine diagnostics on patient individualized basis. Development and availability of new radiopharmaceuticals specific for particular diseases is one of the driving forces of the expansion of clinical PET. The future development of the ⁶⁸Ga-radiopharmaceu...

objective(s): we performed a phase iia clinical trial of trans-1-amino-3-18ffluoro-cyclobutane carboxylic acid (anti-18f-facbc), a synthetic amino acid analog for pet, in patients with metastatic prostate cancer. methods: the study subjects consisted of 10 untreated prostate cancer patients having lymph node and/or bone metastasis. five patients underwent whole-body pet 5 and 30 min after intra...

This article gives an overview of recent publications and potential indications of Positron emission tomography/ Magnetic resonance (PET/MR) imaging of prostate cancer.

CONTEXT Radiolabelled choline positron emission tomography has changed the management of prostate cancer patients. However, new emerging radiopharmaceutical agents, like radiolabelled prostate specific membrane antigen, and new promising hybrid imaging will begin new challenges in the diagnostic field. OBJECTIVE The continuous evolution in nuclear medicine has led to the improvement in the de...

Since its introduction in the early nineties as a promising functional imaging technique in the management of neoplastic disorders, FDG-PET, and subsequently FDG-PET/CT, has become a cornerstone in several oncologic procedures such as tumor staging and restaging, treatment efficacy assessment during or after treatment end and radiotherapy planning. Moreover, the continuous technological progres...

invasive apocrine carcinoma (iac) of the breast is a rare subtype of breast malignancy. its incidence is not well known, but it is approximately less than 1% to 4%. for these reasons, there are few reports and little information on the radiologic appearance of iac. furthermore, most of the case reports show malignant features which are similar to invasive ductal carcinoma (idc). we present a ra...

Semantic variant primary progressive aphasia (svPPA), a well-known subtype of the frontotemporal dementia often shows peculiar clinical features and structural neuroimage findings. To strengthen accuracy diagnosis, amyloid positron emission tomography-computed tomography (PET-CT) might be helpful. However, in patients with late-onset svPPA, an admixture various neuropathology would interfere di...

Czerniak złośliwy jest główną przyczyną zgonów wśród chorych z rozpoznanym nowotworem złośliwym skóry. Metoda pozytonowej tomografii emisyjnej/tomografii komputerowej (z ang. positron emission tomography/computed tomography, PET/CT) jedną najczęściej stosowanych technik obrazowych w onkologii, wykorzystywaną zarówno ocenie stopnia zaawansowania, jak i planowaniu oraz ewaluacji skuteczności tera...

Objectives This study aimed to determine the diagnostic accuracy of the 3 most commonly used noninvasive myocardial perfusion imaging modalities, single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR), and positron emission tomography (PET) perfusion imaging for the diagnosis of obstructive coronary artery disease (CAD). Additionally, the effect of test and study c...