Fluorodeoxyglucose-PET for Ablation Treatment Planning, Intraprocedural Monitoring, and Response

Abstract

PET has become an essential tool for staging and response assessment in oncologic imaging. Over the past decade it has also evolved into a tool for image-guided interventions, specifically in the rapidly growing field of interventional oncology. PET-guided biopsies have greater sensitivity and diagnostic yield for fluorodeoxyglucose-avid lesions. Real-time PET imaging can also provide valuable image guidance during therapeutic minimally invasive procedures such as ablation of PET-avid tumors. The increasing use of PET in the assessment of therapeutic response results in earlier identification of disease that is amenable to image-guided therapies.

Keywords: Ablation; Biopsy; Interventional oncology; Interventional radiology; PET scan; Positron-emission tomography; Radiology.