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A Carbon-11 Methionine PET Scan Can Confirm Remission with Dr Toshihiko Sato
Send us Fan MailA scan that can’t wait sounds like science fiction until you hear the numbers: carbon-11 has a 12-minute half-life, which means a carbon-11 methionine PET scan has to be made onsite, injected fast, and run immediately or the signal can vanish. That time pressure is exactly why we traveled to Japan to talk with Dr. Toshihiko Sato at the Utsunomiya Clinic, where they produce specialized PET radiotracers and perform total-body methionine PET imaging that many hospitals simply can’t offer. We get into what methionine PET shows that a standard FDG PET (glucose PET) may miss, and…
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