Initial clinical experience with a dedicated breast PET system

Conclusions Dedicated breast PET may be a beneficial adjunct test following whole-body PET/CT in evaluating patients with breast cancer. Whole-body PET/CT offers advantages over dedicated breast PET, such as evaluation of systemic disease, lymph node involvement, and chest wall invasion. However, breast PET’s increased spatial resolution [reported as 1.6mm isotropic (1)] may aide in early detection of small lesions not visible on whole-body PET/CT, rendering these tools complimentary to each other for management of breast disease.

Source: Journal of Nuclear Medicine - May 23, 2016 Category: Nuclear Medicine Authors: Swanson, T., Hunt, K., Hruska, C., Fazzio, R., Tran, T., Solberg, C., Long, Z., OConnor, M. Tags: MTA I: Technologist Posters Source Type: research