Reduction of the fluorine-18-labeled fluorodeoxyglucose dose for clinically dedicated breast positron emission tomography.

In summary, 25% of the standard 18F-FDG dose for dbPET can provide a clinically acceptable image quality, while 12.5% of the standard dose results in acceptable quality in terms of lesion detection when lesions are located at a sufficient distance from the edge of the dbPET detector.