PET COE Valk Award Memorial Lecture: PET in Precision Medicine: Transiting Molecular Imaging from “Lumpology” to “Biology”
PET COE Valk Award Memorial Lecture: PET in Precision Medicine: Transiting Molecular Imaging from “Lumpology” to “Biology” is organized by Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging (SNMMI).
Release Date: 08/27/2021
Expiration Date: 09/01/2024
Target Audience :
Nuclear medicine pharmacists, technologists, physicists, and residents/students
Objectives :
At the completion of this activity, the participant will be able to:
• Explain how FDG moved from being a tracer for the evaluation of glycolytic metabolism to being a “contrast agent” for detecting cancer.
• Describe how new tracers have supplanted FDG for the detection of some diseases with low FDG-avidity.
• Discuss why new tracers, and FDG itself, should be reconsidered in the context of modern oncology as agents to phenotype disease within and between patients
