F-18 FDG PET/CT Practice Guideline in Oncology
Journal Title: Nuclear Medicine Seminars - Year 2020, Vol 6, Issue 3
Abstract
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a tomographic imaging method that shows three-dimensional distribution of radiopharmaceuticals which are labelled with positron emitter radionuclides. Today most widely used PET radiopharmaceutical F-18 flourodeoxyglucose is an F-18 labelled glucose analogue, and it is trapped by membrane glucose transporters to viable cells. F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) uptake is proportional to glucose consumption of the tissue. In several type of cancers, increased glucose consumption is seen due to increased GLUT expression and hexokinase activity. F-18 FDG PET is a proved sensitive method in the diagnosis, staging, restaging and treatment response evaluation for several oncological disease. This practice guideline aims to help nuclear medicine physicians, physicists and technicians as persons who apply, evaluate and report F-18 FDG PET/CT by providing general information of F-18 FDG PET/CT. Additionally it is focused to provide standardization of quality of diagnostic imaging and harmonization of obtained quantitative information.
Authors and Affiliations
Çiğdem Soydal, Zeynep Burak, Gülin Uçmak, Murat Fani Bozkurt, Tamer Atasever, Emre Demirci, İlknur Ak Sivrikoz
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