A1 Refereed original research article in a scientific journal
18F-Fluorodihydroxyphenylalanine (FDOPA) in the Diagnosis of NET
Authors: Minn H, Kemppainen J, Kauhanen S, Forsback S, Seppänen M
Editors: Elsevier
Publisher: W.B. Saunders Co.
Publication year: 2014
Journal: PET Clinics
Book title : PET Clinics
Number in series: 9
Volume: 9
Issue: 3
First page : 27
Last page: 36
Number of pages: 10
ISSN: 1556-8598
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cpet.2013.08.013(external)
FDOPA is a powerful tool to diagnose and detect neuroendocrine tumors (NET) for planning and monitoring of surgical and oncological therapies. Especially pheochromocytomas, paragangliomas and medullary thyroid cancer are amenable to FDOPA imaging because of high specific uptake of this amino acid analogue and excellent tumor-to-background contrast at PET/CT.
