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Current Status of PET in the World

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The concept of fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography (FDG PET) was conceived in the early 1970s by a number of researchers. In August 1976, the first brain and whole-body images were acquired successfully using the initial type of PET scanner optimized for in vivo imaging with positron-emitting radionuclides in humans (Phelps et al. J Nucl Med 16(3):210–24, 1975). This demonstrated the feasibility of the methodology, but it was still far from clinical study.

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  1. Department of Nuclear Medicine, National Cancer Center, Gyeonggi-do, 410-769, South Korea

    Seok-Ki Kim M.D.

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul, 110-744, South Korea

    Keon W. Kang M.D., Ph.D.

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Gachon University School of Medicine, 1198 Guwol-dong, Namdong-Gu, Incheon, 405, South Korea

    Myung-Chul Lee M.D., Ph.D.

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  1. and Diagnostic Radiology, The University of Texas, Departments of Nuclear Medicine, Holcombe Blvd. 1515, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    E. Edmund Kim

  2. Gachon University School of Medicine, Department of Nuclear Medicine, Guwol-dong 1198, Namdong-Gu, Incheon, 405, Korea, Republic of (South Korea)

    Myung-Chul Lee

  3. Yokohama City University, Graduate School of Medicine, Department of Radiology, Fukuura 3-9, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 236-0004, Japan

    Tomio Inoue

  4. The University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dept. of Experimental Diagnostic Imaging, Holcombe Blvd. 1400, Houston, 77030, Texas, USA

    Wai-Hoi Wong

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Kim, SK., Kang, K.W., Lee, MC. (2013). Current Status of PET in the World. In: Kim, E., Lee, MC., Inoue, T., Wong, WH. (eds) Clinical PET and PET/CT. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0802-5_11

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