Procedure guidelines for PET/CT tumour imaging with 68Ga-DOTA-conjugated peptides: 68Ga-DOTA-TOC, 68Ga-DOTA-NOC, 68Ga-DOTA-TATE.

Virgolini, I.
Ambrosini, V.
Bomanji, J.B.
Baum, R.P.
Fanti, S.
Gabriel, M.
Papathanasiou, N.D.
Pepe, G.
Oyen, W.J.G.
Cristoforo, C. De
Chiti, A.

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Publication date

January 2010

DOI

10.1007/s00259-010-1512-3

Publisher

Springer Science and Business Media LLC

ISSN

1619-7070

Citation count (estimate)

160

Abstract

Contains fulltext : 89608.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)The aim of these guidelines is to assist nuclear medicine physicians in recommending, performing, reporting and interpreting the results of somatostatin (SST) receptor PET/CT imaging using 68Ga-DOTA-conjugated peptides, analogues of octreotide, that bind to SST receptors. This imaging modality should not be regarded as the only approach to visualizing tumours expressing SST receptors or as excluding other imaging modalities useful for obtaining comparable results. The corresponding guidelines of 111In-pentetreotide scintigraphy imaging have been considered and partially integrated with this text. The same has been done with the relevant and recent literatu...