(68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT: Joint EANM and SNMMI procedure guideline for prostate cancer imaging: version 1.0

The aim of this guideline is to provide standards for the recommendation, performance, interpretation and reporting of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for prostate cancer imaging. These recommendations will help to improve accuracy, precision, and repeatability of (68)Ga-PSMA PET/CT for prostate cancer essentially needed for implementation of this modality in science and routine clinical practice.

European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging. 2017 Mar 10 [Epub ahead of print]

Wolfgang P Fendler, Matthias Eiber, Mohsen Beheshti, Jamshed Bomanji, Francesco Ceci, Steven Cho, Frederik Giesel, Uwe Haberkorn, Thomas A Hope, Klaus Kopka, Bernd J Krause, Felix M Mottaghy, Heiko Schöder, John Sunderland, Simon Wan, Hans-Jürgen Wester, Stefano Fanti, Ken Herrmann

Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, 200 Medical Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA., Department of Nuclear Medicine & Endocrinology, PET-CT Center, St. Vincent's Hospital, Linz, Austria., Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCL/UCLH, London, UK., Nuclear Medicine Unit, University of Bologna, S. Orsola Hospital Bologna, Bologna, Italy., Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg and DKFZ Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany., Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA., Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany., Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany., Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA., Department of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA., Pharmaceutical Radiochemistry, Technische Universität München, Walther-Meißner-Str.3, 85748, Garching, Germany., Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, 200 Medical Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA. .