Preliminary Results of Cancer Screening with F-18 Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/ Computed Tomography in Korea

摘要

Introduction: Usage of radioisotope in Korea is increasing with the development of industry, science and medicine. In industry field, Korea has been ranked as 6th of the world in the generation of electricity by nuclear power plant. In medical field, Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (PET/ CT) imaging modality, which performs cancer detection with radioisotope, has been installed rapidly. PET/CT visualizes glucose metabolism of cancer tissue by F-18 fluorodeoxy glucose (FDG), which is derivative of glucose and labeled with positron emitting F-18. Our institute has been performing cancer screening with PET/CT and we analyzed preliminary results of cancer screening with PET/CT over last 20 months.