Total-body PET and long-axial-field-ofview (LAFOV) PET are game-changing innovations at
the threshold of clinical implementation. Early experience has demonstrated high sensitivity …

A 5-year-old boy with left parapharyngeal space mass was scheduled to a PET/CT
examination for disease diagnosis. Following the routine PET/CT scanning process for …

Dear Sir, Since the 1960s, the desire to improve the performance of positron emission
tomography (PET), the most sensitive technique available for studying the metabolic …

A 10-week-old newborn presenting with Staphylococcus aureus sepsis of unknown origin
was referred to our nuclear medicine department for 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging. His medical …

Accurate determination of the anatomic location of normal and pathological sites visualized
on PET undoubtedly facilitates optimal interpretation of PET studies. It is now well …

No consistent guidelines exist for the acquisition of a CT scan as part of pediatric PET/CT.
Given that children may be more vulnerable to the effects of ionizing radiation, it is …

This article was written to give health-care providers working in the field of nuclear medicine
some background information on pediatric PET/CT. Specifically, it provides information …

The purpose of this review is to familiarize the reader with aspects of PET that are important
to its performance in pediatric patients. Recognition of differences in applying PET …

In this study, we investigated the diagnostic performance of whole-body 18F-FDG imaging
using a PET/MRI scanner with time-of-flight capability for low-dose clinical imaging of …

High-quality PET imaging of pediatric patients is challenging and requires attention to issues
commonly encountered in the practice of pediatric nuclear medicine, but uncommon to the …