FLUORO-DOPA PET STUDY

DATE:  7/24/2006

PROCEDURE:  The patient was given an IV injection of  F18 L-DOPA.  After a standard uptake period, the patient was imaged on a Siemens/CTI PET scanner with multiple five-minute images of the body.  After removing static image frames containing patient motion, the remaining images were summed, reconstructed and resliced into transaxial and coronal images.

F-18 L-DOPA DOSE: [15] mCi   

SESSION NUMBER: p00000

CORRELATIVE STUDIES: None

COMPARISON: None

CLINICAL HISTORY: The patient is a [...]-year-old [fe]male with past medical history significant for [...], who is referred for evaluation of [...].

FINDINGS:  

Normal metabolic activity is noted within the head and neck musculature, bilateral lung fields, liver, spleen, remainder of the gastrointestinal tract, kidneys, and urinary bladder.

No focus of abnormal tracer activity is seen in the cervical, supraclavicular, mediastinal, axillary, retroperitoneal or inguinal nodal regions.

CONCLUSIONS:  

F-DOPA PET scan without evidence of malignant disease.