| Literature DB >> 15018161 |
L S Freudenberg1, G Antoch, R Görges, J Knust, R Pink, W Jentzen, J F Debatin, W Brandau, A Bockisch, J Stattaus.
Abstract
Iodine-124 positron emission tomography (PET) is a useful 3D imaging technique for diagnosis and management of thyroid diseases. The difficulty in interpretation of the PET scans with highly selective tracers, such as iodine-124, is the lack of identifiable anatomical structures, so an accurate anatomical localization of foci presenting abnormal uptake is problematic. Consequently, a combined PET/CT scanner can resolve these difficulties by co-registering PET and CT data in a single session allowing a correlation of functional and morphologic imaging. A case is presented where iodine-124 produced by a clinical cyclotron and FDG were used to acquire images with a combined PET/CT scanner for clinical staging. On the basis of the PET/CT exams the treatment of the patient was modified.Entities:
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Year: 2003 PMID： 15018161 DOI： 10.1007/s00330-003-1884-x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur Radiol ISSN： 0938-7994 Impact factor: 5.315