Open AccessFAPI-PET/CT: A New Direction For Diagnostic Imaging In Nuclear Medicine
Author(s) -
Pavel Korol,
Anatoliy Samokhin,
О. В. Щербіна,
N. Ponomarenko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
radiation diagnostics, radiation therapy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2707-0700
pISSN - 2707-0697
DOI - 10.37336/2707-0700-2019-4-6
Subject(s) - pet ct , nuclear medicine , medicine , positron emission tomography , esophagus , cancer , standardized uptake value , radiology
The literature review addresses the prospects of application, FAPI-PET / CT, as a new method for diagnostic visualization of malignant tumor diseases. According to the study, a number of epidemiologically important tumor diseases, in particular breast cancer, esophagus, lungs, pancreas, tumors of the head and neck, colorectal cancer, have an extremely high absorption of FAPI in the execution of 68-Ga-FAPI-PET / CT. However, further technological improvements are required in order for FAPI-PET / CT imaging, by computing SUV, to become part of routine medical practice.Key words: positron emission tomography, radiopharmaceutical, fibroblast-associated protein, standardized uptake value.