This guideline provides recommendations for the use of PET imaging in gliomas. The review
examines established clinical benefit in glioma patients of PET using glucose (18F-FDG) …

Abstract 11 C-methionine (MET) is the most popular amino acid tracer used in PET imaging
of brain tumours. Because of its characteristics, MET PET provides a high detection rate of …

Imaging techniques are important for accurate diagnosis and follow-up of patients with
gliomas. T1-weighted MRI, with or without gadolinium, is the gold standard method …

Differentiating treatment-induced necrosis from tumor recurrence is a central challenge in
neuro-oncology. These 2 very different outcomes after brain tumor treatment often appear …

Neuroimaging enables the noninvasive evaluation of glioma and is considered to be one of
the key factors for individualized therapy and patient management, since accurate diagnosis …

Background We evaluated the diagnostic value of static and dynamic O-(2-[18F] fluoroethyl)-
l-tyrosine (18F-FET) PET parameters in patients with progressive or recurrent glioma …

Purpose Treatment and prognosis of gliomas depend on their histological tumour grade.
The aim of the study was to evaluate the potential of [18 F] fluoroethyltyrosine (FET) PET for …

Molecular imaging of tumor metabolism has gained considerable interest, since preclinical
studies have indicated a close relationship between the activation of various oncogenes and …

Glioblastoma, the most common malignant primary brain tumor in adults is a devastating
diagnosis with an average survival of 14–16 months using the current standard of care …

This review addresses the specific contributions of nuclear medicine techniques, and
especially positron emission tomography (PET), for diagnosis and management of brain …