Positron emission tomography (PET) imaging is commonly used in adult patients. Its use in
pediatric patients is limited but indicated in certain cancers such as lymphoma, sarcoma …

The growth of nuclear medicine at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st
has been caused mostly by recognition of the clinical value of coincidence imaging, or PET …

This article was written to give health-care providers working in the field of nuclear medicine
some background information on pediatric PET/CT. Specifically, it provides information …

1812 Objectives: We describe the performance and clinical workflow of a new, high
resolution PET/CT scanner, the Biograph TruePoint (Siemens Molecular Imaging), with …

Indications and instructions to patients for performing a positron emission tomography-PET
scan are mentioned. Although PET camera was developed in 1970 its clinical indications …

Until last summer, doctors at Baylor University Med ical Center, a tertiary care teaching
community hos pital in Dallas, Texas, had to plan a patient's road trip to the nearest …

P613 Introduction: Long axial field of view (LAFOV) PET/CT has enabled increased image
quality and lesion detection, while maintaining shorter total scan time than previous …

The good results of PET/CT described in adult oncology patients have been followed by
reports in the literature about advantageous applications of PET/CT in paediatric oncology [3 …

The SET-2400W is a newly designed whole-body PET scanner with a large axial field of
view (20 cm). Its physical performance was investigated and evaluated. The scanner …

No consistent guidelines exist for the acquisition of a CT scan as part of pediatric PET/CT.
Given that children may be more vulnerable to the effects of ionizing radiation, it is …