MATERIAL AND METhODS

or more than a decade, ‘8F-fluorodeoxyglucosehas been the most frequently used marker for positron emis sion tomography(PET) imagingof malignanttumors, as it is recognized that the rate of glycolysis is veiy often in creased in malignant cells (1—3).More recently, the use of FDG was proposed to monitor the efficacy of antitumoral treatment (4-8). Two nonPET markers widely used in cardiology to assess myocardial perfusion