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ReviewJournal of clinical medicine2025

Semiquantitative Analysis in PET/CT Imaging of Prostate Cancer.

Vasiliki Fragkiadaki, Ioannis Ntanasis-Stathopoulos, Michalis Liontos, Flora Zagouri, Meletios-Athanasios Dimopoulos, Maria Gavriatopoulou

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Review in Journal of clinical medicine, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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6 authors.

Vasiliki FragkiadakiDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Ioannis Ntanasis-StathopoulosDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6328-9783
Michalis LiontosDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-7192-4575
Flora ZagouriDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.
Meletios-Athanasios DimopoulosDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.ORCID 0000-0001-8990-3254
Maria GavriatopoulouDepartment of Clinical Therapeutics, School of Medicine, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, 11528 Athens, Greece.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer, affecting millions of men globally and having a significant burden on health care systems. During recent years, the rapid development of the nuclear medicine field and the wide use and application of positron emission tomography combined with computed tomography (PET/CT) have significantly changed the diagnosis, treatment approach and patient outcomes. Semiquantitative analysis in PET/CT imaging quantifies the load of the disease in patients diagnosed with prostate cancer without measuring the precise amount of a radiotracer injected into the patient; instead, there is an indirect evaluation of the radiotracer using semiquantitative indices. Beginning with the standard uptake value (SUV) in Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET/CT, various semiquantitative measures have been created and are now used for analyzing different radiotracers. The purpose of this review is to provide an overview of the importance of the semiquantitative analysis in PET/CT imaging with the use of prostate-specific radiotracers at the initial staging of prostate cancer, as well as in biochemical recurrence and in the metastatic state.

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metabolic tumor volumepositron emission tomographyprostate cancersemiquantitative analysisstandard uptake value maximum

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PMCPMC12156026

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