CEREBRAL FLUORO-DOPA PET 

DATE: 11/17/2005

PROCEDURE: The patient was given an IV injection of F18 L-DOPA. Dynamic imaging was performed on a Siemens/CTI PET scanner. The images were summed, reconstructed and resliced into transaxial and coronal images.

F-18 L-DOPA DOSE: [3.5] mCi

SESSION NUMBER: p00000

CORRELATIVE STUDIES: None

COMPARISON: None

CLINICAL HISTORY: The patient is a [...]-year-old [fe]male with past medical history significant for [...], who is referred for evaluation of [...].

FINDINGS:

Normal tracer activity is seen throughout the cortical structures, bilateral basal ganglia, thalami and the cerebellum. 

No areas of abnormal tracer uptake are identified.

CONCLUSIONS: 

Brain F-DOPA PET scan without evidence of neoplastic disease.

Increased tracer activity in the left temporal lobe is highly suspicious for tumor recurrence.

Thank you for referring this patient to the UCLA Nuclear Medicine Clinic.

I, [...], M.D., Ph.D., have reviewed this Nuclear Medicine study personally, and am in full agreement with the findings of the report presented here.