Assessing ablation margins of FDG-avid liver tumors during PET/CT-guided thermal ablation procedures: a retrospective study.
Leigh C CasadabanPaul J CatalanoLeslie K LeeHyewon HyunKemal TuncaliVictor H GerbaudoPaul B ShynPublished in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2021)
Breath-hold PET/CT scans, during PET/CT-guided microwave or cryoablation procedures for FDG-avid liver tumors, enable reliable intraprocedural assessment of the entire tumor ablation margin; a minimum PET/CT ablation margin threshold of 5 mm correlates well with local tumor progression outcomes.