Title: Breast Imaging with Positron Emission Tomography
Abstract: A Positron emission tomography (PET) is a cross-sectional, nuclear medicine imaging technique that provides functional images of the body. While fluoro-D-glucose (FDG)-PET is a new, promising imaging modality, it offers the potential to evaluate primary, regionally metastatic, and systemic metastases and recurrence of a breast cancer. Under these conditions, we have found that diabetic patients usually present with a blood sugar levels well below 180 mg%. Some institutions perform the transmission scan directly after the emission scan. Overall, it is yet clear whether a transmission scan is needed for routine clinical use, since the images are predominantly analyzed qualitatively. While FDG combines a series of preferable tracer characteristics, e.g., active accumulation and trapping mechanisms, the development of dedicated breast imaging cameras with higher spatial resolution is pressing and might solve some of the limitations encountered by using dedicated PET scanners.
Publication Year: 2021
Publication Date: 2021-01-31
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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