Fluorocholine PET/computed tomography: physiologic uptake, benign findings, and pitfalls.

Mohsen Beheshti, Athar Haroon, Jamshed B Bomanji, Werner Langsteger

Journal: PET clinics 2015;9(3):299-306

PMID: 25030393

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Abstract

Choline PET has a role in the diagnosis of malignancies. Knowledge of normal biodistribution plays a vital role in disease characterization and in differentiating normal variants from disease processes. CT and MR scans provide complementary information, and choline-positive sites should be correlated clinically to exclude inflammatory disorders.

Address: PET-CT Center LINZ, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrinology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Seilerstaette 4, Linz A-4020, Austria. Electronic address: [email protected].; T5 University College London Hospital, London, UK.; PET-CT Center LINZ, Department of Nuclear Medicine and Endocrinology, St. Vincent's Hospital, Seilerstaette 4, Linz A-4020, Austria.

DOI: 10.1016/j.cpet.2014.03.001

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MeSH Terms: Abdomen, Central Nervous System, Choline, Contraindications, Fluorine Radioisotopes, Humans, Neoplasms, Positron-Emission Tomography, Radiopharmaceuticals, Thorax, Tissue Distribution, Tomography, X-Ray Computed, Urogenital System