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About Your Skull Base to Mid-Thigh FDG-PET Exam. Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is a nuclear medicine procedure that produces pictures of the body’s metabolism, or chemical activity, within your body. While imaging procedures such as Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) take pictures of organs and structures ...
Skull base–to–proximal thigh imaging generally is recommended to survey the body in the search for areas of abnormal 18 F-FDG accumulation for most tumor types. Such PET/CT scans typically are acquired from the external auditory meatus to the midthigh region.
PET from the skull base to the mid-thigh may be medically appropriate when the medical record demonstrates ANY of the following: [1] [2] [3] [8] Cancer is suspected or known, in any area from the base of the skill to the mid-thigh, for ANY. of the following: Cancer screening per the United States Preventative Services Task Force (USPSTF)/Na-
9 Οκτ 2024 · For most cancer-related scans, covering the area from the base of the skull to mid-thigh is sufficient. However, for patients with a high likelihood of metastases in the lower limbs, a full-body scan might be necessary. Figure 1 illustrates the clinical indications of [18 F]FDG-PET/CT in oncology.
The scanner software then automatically realigns the table, and a spiral CT is performed of the area of interest (usually the base of the skull through the mid-thigh for most oncology studies), generating literally hundreds of transaxial images through the body.
mended. Patients are scanned from the skull base to clavicles with the arms down and then from the skull base to mid thighs with the arms up. The dedicated head and neck imag-ing protocol consists of 3D PET scans with 5 minutes for each bed position, a 30-cm FOV, and 256 × 256 matrix for improved resolu-
• The PET/CT camera will take images. Most scans cover the area from the base of your skull down to the middle of your thighs. This imaging takes about 40 minutes. – If your doctor requested a whole-body scan ( from the top of your head to your toes), the imaging will take around 70 minutes. • Expect to be in the Imaging Department for 3 ...
