PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE AU - Sabah Servaes TI - Imaging Infection and Inflammation in Children with <sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET and <sup>18</sup>F-FDG PET/CT AID - 10.2967/jnmt.111.088385 DP - 2011 Sep 01 TA - Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology PG - 179--182 VI - 39 IP - 3 4099 - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/39/3/179.short 4100 - http://tech.snmjournals.org/content/39/3/179.full SO - J. Nucl. Med. Technol.2011 Sep 01; 39 AB - The goal of this article is to delineate indications for 18F-FDG PET/CT pertaining to inflammation in the pediatric population, with emphasis on those that have been described in the literature. The limitations of 18F-FDG PET/CT in this type of evaluation are also described, and the importance of using as low a dose as feasible is discussed. After reading this article, the reader should be able to list several clinical situations in which 18F-FDG PET/CT may be appropriate, describe some limitations of 18F-FDG PET/CT, and explain why dose is particularly important in the pediatric population.