Evaluation of Musculoskeletal and Pulmonary Bacterial Infections With [124I]FIAU PET/CT.

Steve Y ChoSteven P RoweSanjay K JainLew C SchonRex C YungTariq A NayfehClifton O BinghamCatherine A FossSridhar NimmagaddaMartin G Pomper

Published in: Molecular imaging (2021)

The high number of patients with equivocal clinical findings prevented definitive conclusions from being made regarding the diagnostic efficacy of [124I]FIAU. Future studies using microbiology to rigorously define infection in patients and PET radiotracers optimized for image quality are needed.

Keyphrases

pet ct
image quality
computed tomography
end stage renal disease
positron emission tomography
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
pulmonary hypertension
prognostic factors
squamous cell carcinoma
magnetic resonance imaging
radiation therapy
case control
rectal cancer