Non-FDG PET imaging of brain tumors

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• 作者：Zemin HUANG ; Yihui GUAN ; Chuantao ZUO ; Zhengwei ZHANG ; Fangping XUE ; Xiangtong LIN
• 关键词：Positron emission tomography ; Brain tumor ; Non-FDG
  CLC numbers ; R817.4 ; R739.41
• 刊名：Nuclear Science and Techniques
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：June 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：18
• 期：3
• 页码：154-158
• 全文大小：527 K

文摘

Due to relatively high uptake of glucose in the brain cortex, the use of FDG PET imaging is greatly limited in brain tumor imaging, especially for low-grade gliomas and some metastatic tumours. More and more tracers with higher specificity were developed lately for brain tumor imaging. There are 3 main types of non-FDG PET tracers: amino acid tracers, choline tracers and nucleic acid tracers. These tracers are now widely applied in many aspects of brain tumor imaging. This article summarized the general use of non-FDG PET in different aspects of brain tumor imaging.