PET versus SPECT in distinguishing radiation necrosis from tumor recurrence in the brain
Journal Article
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· Journal of Nuclear Medicine
OSTI ID:114883
- Hospital of the Univ. of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (United States); and others
Two cases of postsurgical brain tumor evaluation in which MRI was inconclusive are discussed. Functional imaging techniques, such as FDG-PET and {sup 201}TI SPECT, were used in both cases for distinguishing radiation necrosis from tumor recurrence. These methods proved to be complimentary. For Patient 1, FDG-PET showed more limitations compared to {sup 201}Tl SPECT. FDG-PET results, on the other hand, were consistent with the final diagnosis and the SPECT image was false positive for tumor recurrence in Patient 2. 26 refs., 9 figs.
- OSTI ID:
- 114883
- Journal Information:
- Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Vol. 36, Issue 1; Other Information: PBD: Jan 1995
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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