Patient Preparation
- Withdraw any somatostatin analogs. Short acting compounds for 48 h and long acting ones for 6 weeks.
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1 Schelbert H. R. et al. Procedure Guideline for Tumor Imaging Using F-18 FDG. Society of Nuclear Medicine Manual 2002: 133-137.
2 Rohren EM, Turkington TG, Coleman RE. Clinical applications of PET in oncology. Radiology. 2004 May;231(2):305-32.
3 Virgolini Irene et al. Procedure guidelines for PET/CT tumour imaging with 68Ga-DOTA-conjugated peptides: 68Ga-DOTA-TOC, 68Ga-DOTA-NOC, 68Ga-DOTA-TATE. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging (2010) 37:2004–2010.
Index 68Ga Dotatate Tumor Imaging Study Protocol