Jorge D Oldan, Yueh Z Lee, Kristen OIinger, Thad S Benefield, Erin T Carey, Noor D Abu-Alnadi, Steven L Young
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Abstract
Endometriosis is a common cause of infertility, pelvic pain, and dysmenorrhea and there are prior case reports of lesion detection using an 18F-fluoroestradiol (FES) tracer with positron emission tomography (PET). We aimed to further investigate the use of the FES tracer in the context of PET-magnetic resonance (PET-MR) imaging. We administered FES to 6 patients and then imaged them using a Siemens mMR PET-MR scanner. Each patient was taken to surgery within 30 days after imaging, and surgical visualization served as the gold-standard for diagnosis. PET did not prove to be as sensitive as MR (50% per-patient sensitivity versus 67% per-patient and 35% versus 48% per-lesion), and did not show any additional sites over and above MR. When MR was used to localize lesions on PET after imaging, there was insufficient evidence of an association between total tracer uptake and reported pain intensity (P=0.25). FES PET-MR offers no additional value to MR for endometriosis.
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The scope of AJNMMI encompasses all areas of molecular imaging, including but not limited to: positron emission tomography (PET), single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), molecular magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic resonance spectroscopy, optical bioluminescence, optical fluorescence, targeted ultrasound, photoacoustic imaging, etc. AJNMMI welcomes original and review articles on both clinical investigation and preclinical research. Occasionally, special topic issues, short communications, editorials, and invited perspectives will also be published. Manuscripts, including figures and tables, must be original and not under consideration by another journal.