Clinical significance of suspicious incidental FDG uptake: a comparison between digital PET/CT and conventional PET/CT.
Takuya Kitamura
N. Kawaguchi
Marika Matsuoka
Kotaro Matsumoto
Hiroki Yakata
Tomohisa Okada
Masao Miyagawa
Teruhito Kido
Medicine
TL;DR
In routine clinical practice, implementation of dPET was associated with increased detection of suspicious incidental FDG uptake and confirmed incidental malignancy compared with cPET, however, SUVmax alone had limited value for distinguishing malignant from non-malignant incidental lesions, indicating that organ-specific clinical interpretation remains essential.