90Y Digital PET/CT Imaging Following Radioembolization.

Imaging of Y internal pair production with conventional photomultiplier detector PET technology has been previously reported for patients with malignant/metastatic liver lesions treated with Y radioembolization (RE). We present a 54-year-old man with unresectable liver metastases from rectal carcinoma (involving the right and left lobes) who was referred for Y RE and subsequently imaged using new solid-state digital photon counting technology (Vereos 64 Time-of-Flight PET/CT; Philips, Cleveland, OH). Despite imaging at 26 hours following RE, digital PET/CT provides improved image quality and Y-to-background contrast as well as accurate visualization of Y biodistribution when compared with Bremsstrahlung SPECT/CT.

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