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Dual Time Point 18F-FDG PET for the Evaluation of Pulmonary Nodules

Alexander Matthies, MD, Marc Hickeson, MD, Andrew Cuchiara, PhD and Abass Alavi, MD

Division of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



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  		FIGURE 1. A 72-y-old woman presented with right lower lobe nodule measuring 1.8 x 1.0 cm. SUV increased from 1.45 on scan 1 at 65 min after injection (A) to 1.72 on scan 2 at 123 min after injection (B). Biopsy of lesion revealed moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma.

 


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  		FIGURE 2. A 69-y-old woman presented with 0.8-cm density in left upper lobe. SUV was not significantly different between scan 1 at 54 min after injection (A), where SUV was 1.54, and scan 2 at 100 min after injection (B), where SUV was 1.50. Excised lesion was granuloma.

 




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