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01-07-2014 | Others
Clinical practice guideline for dedicated breast PET
Authors:
Makoto Hosono, Tsuneo Saga, Kengo Ito, Shinichiro Kumita, Masayuki Sasaki, Michio Senda, Jun Hatazawa, Hiroshi Watanabe, Hiroshi Ito, Shinichi Kanaya, Yuichi Kimura, Hideo Saji, Seishi Jinnouchi, Hiroyoshi Fukukita, Koji Murakami, Seigo Kinuya, Junichi Yamazaki, Mayuki Uchiyama, Koichi Uno, Katsuhiko Kato, Tsuyoshi Kawano, Kazuo Kubota, Takashi Togawa, Norinari Honda, Hirotaka Maruno, Mana Yoshimura, Masami Kawamoto, Yukihiko Ozawa
Published in:
Annals of Nuclear Medicine
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Issue 6/2014
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Excerpt
Dedicated breast positron-emission tomography (dedicated breast PET) is a diagnostic technique using a dedicated breast PET scanner. PET using
18F-2-deoxy-2-fluoro-
d-glucose (hereafter, FDG) is a very useful diagnostic technique in medical examination. In 2002, FDG-PET was employed for health insurance checks on 12 diseases, mainly cancer. Since breast cancer has been covered under insurance from the beginning, the technique has played an important role, mainly in staging and recurrence screening [
1]. …