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Posted in Nuclear Medicine on June 24, 2010 by m.khodeer

Study Type, Agent, and Dose?

Answer:

Normal FDG-PET Scan
Agent: [¹⁸F] 2-fluoro-2-deoxy-D-glucose (FDG)

Adult Dose: 10 mCi IV
Excretion: Renal
Critical Orang: Bladder
Notes:

PET imaging has relatively high resoution, for a NM study, due to coincidence detection.
photons are high- energy (511 keV).
About 50% of studies will show myocardial uptake, and 50% will not.

Study Comparison-Study Type Does Matter:


Normal FDG-PET Higher resolution Liver Activity +/- Cardiac activity	Normal Bone Scan Lower resolution Bone Activity No liver or cardiac activity