SNMMI Image of the Year: Novel radiotracer detects 28 cancer types

(Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging) The results of a study demonstrate that positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) with a fibroblast-activation protein inhibitor (FAPI) -- which targets the overexpressed proteins present in cancer -- resulted in images with exceptionally clear tumor delineation and high image contrast, as demonstrated in the 68Ga-FAPI-PET/CT image that has been selected as the 2019 SNMMI Image of the Year.
Source: EurekAlert! - Cancer - Category: Cancer & Oncology Source Type: news