TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical Implementation of Total-Body PET/CT at University of California, Davis
AU - Nardo, Lorenzo
AU - Abdelhafez, Yasser G.
AU - Spencer, Benjamin A.
AU - Badawi, Ramsey D.
N1 - Funding Information:
Funding: NIH R01 CA249422; NIH R01 CA206187.The authors thank the EXPLORER team at UC Davis for their hard work and strong support. In particular we thank the technologists: Denise Caudle, Heather Hunt, Kristin McBride, Mike Nguyen, Michael Rusnak; the radiologists: Marwah Helmy, Elizabeth Moore, Fatma Sen, Cameron Foster, Rosalie Hagge, Thomas Loehfelm, Matthew Bobinski, Nancy Pham; the physics team: Benjamin Spencer, Eric Berg, Edwin K. Leung, Negar Omidvari, Emilie Roncali, Anthony Siebert, Linda Kroger; the supporting and supervisory staff: Stephen Wetzel, Dana Little, Ellie Nash, Lynda Painting, Ofilio Vigil, Elizabeth Lincoln, Michelle Verdier-Fontes, Kathy Cruz Rodriguez, Jeanee Cooper, Carla Andalis; the ethics experts in the institutional review board team: John Tupin, Amanda Carioggia, Royce Yokoi; WeiPing Liu and Jeffrey Schmall and United Imaging Engineer team; the oncologist experts: Ken Yoneda, Merin Stephen, Tianhong Li, Primo Lara, Karen Kelly, Aaron Rosenberg, May Cho, Joseph Tuscano, Mamta Parikh, Edward Kim, Amanda Kirane, Marcio Malogolowkin, David Cooke, Lisa Brown, and Johnathan Riess. R.D. Badawi has research support from United Imaging Healthcare. L. Nardo has is principal investigator of a service agreement with United Imaging Healthcare; UC Davis has a revenue-sharing agreement with United Imaging Healthcare that is based on uEXPLORER sales.
PY - 2021/1
Y1 - 2021/1
N2 - This work outlines the clinical implementation of total-body PET/CT from the time of installation at UC Davis EXPLORER Molecular Imaging Center in May 2019 to date (September 2020). This process has not been without challenges: logistical, technical, and medical problems were all encountered and are discussed. The mutual learning/teaching engagement among nuclear medicine technologists, research staff, radiologists, and referring physicians has been the key to the past year's achievements; these include development of ground-breaking clinical protocols for a range of Food and Drug Administration–approved radiotracers, and the attainment of a measure of expertise in clinical total-body PET/CT.
AB - This work outlines the clinical implementation of total-body PET/CT from the time of installation at UC Davis EXPLORER Molecular Imaging Center in May 2019 to date (September 2020). This process has not been without challenges: logistical, technical, and medical problems were all encountered and are discussed. The mutual learning/teaching engagement among nuclear medicine technologists, research staff, radiologists, and referring physicians has been the key to the past year's achievements; these include development of ground-breaking clinical protocols for a range of Food and Drug Administration–approved radiotracers, and the attainment of a measure of expertise in clinical total-body PET/CT.
KW - Human imaging
KW - Positron emission tomography
KW - Total-body PET
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cpet.2020.09.006
DO - 10.1016/j.cpet.2020.09.006
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33218600
AN - SCOPUS:85096669341
VL - 16
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - PET Clinics
JF - PET Clinics
SN - 1556-8598
IS - 1
ER -