May 30, 2023 · Nuclear medicine bone scans typically require PSA levels of 20 ng/mL or more before reliably detecting metastatic bone lesions. New nuclear medicine imaging modalities …

A prospective study of 44 patients with high-risk prostate cancer showed superiority of 18 F-fluoride PET/CT over 18 F-fluoride PET, bone scan augmented with SPECT and planar bone …

According to the current EAU guidelines, metastatic screening by means of “at least” an abdominopelvic computed tomography (CT)-scan and bone scintigraphy (BS) (99m Tc …

PET scans, bone scans, and other nuclear medicine scans can help doctors find tumors and see how much the cancer has spread in the body (called the cancer’s stage). They may also be …

A number of bone-specific and tumour-specific tracers for positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) are now available for advanced prostate cancer …

Imaging modalities that can be used to scan the bone in patients with prostate cancer include radionuclide bone scans, CT, MRI, PET and PET–CT. Plain-film radiography has...

Oct 9, 2024 · Nuclear medicine has expanded its role in diagnosing, staging, monitoring, and treating prostate cancer (PCa) in recent years. Prostate-specific membrane antigen PET/CT …

Dec 19, 2016 · We, therefore, review the evolving roles of nuclear medicine and radiology for this application. We have reviewed the published literature reporting recent developments in …

Jan 13, 2021 · This review focuses on nuclear imaging for PCa bone metastases, summarizing the literature on conventional imaging (focusing on CT and bone scintigraphy-magnetic …

Nov 1, 2023 · Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) PET has a higher accuracy than CT and bone scans to stage patients with prostate cancer. We do not understand how to apply …