Monday, December 12, 2005

PET and SUV

new comment in unusual configuration cxr. I had a long discussion with the radiologist in nuclear medicine. He essentially refused to tell me the SUV value on a PET scan, saying that there was so much overlap that it was useless. He was not (yet) able to cite any references to back this up but will hopefully be getting back to me on this. Judging by some of the comments here, I gather some of you rely on this value when making decisions regarding the "hotness" of a lesion. While we are awaiting the radiologist's reply, is anyone aware of studies debunking/invalidating the utility of the SUV value?
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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousMon Dec 12, 03:07:00 PM

    Try this.
    SUV: standard uptake or silly useless value?
    http://jnm.snmjournals.org/cgi/content/citation/45/9/1431

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  2. AnonymousMon Dec 12, 03:34:00 PM

    Oops. I gave you a wrong web address.
    Try below.
    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=7562051&dopt=Abstract

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