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

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

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the EANM and SNMMI committees and national delegates for their critical review of the manuscript. Also, we appreciate the great support of Sonja Niederkofler from the EANM office in Vienna, and Julie Kauffman from the SNMMI office in Reston during the development of this guideline.

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  1. Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA, 10833 Le Conte Ave, 200 Medical Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Wolfgang P. Fendler, Matthias Eiber & Ken Herrmann

  2. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Wolfgang P. Fendler

  3. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Klinikum Rechts der Isar, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

    Matthias Eiber

  4. Department of Nuclear Medicine & Endocrinology, PET-CT Center, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Linz, Austria

    Mohsen Beheshti

  5. Institute of Nuclear Medicine, UCL/UCLH, London, UK

    Jamshed Bomanji & Simon Wan

  6. Nuclear Medicine Unit, University of Bologna, S. Orsola Hospital Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Francesco Ceci & Stefano Fanti

  7. Department of Radiology, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Steven Cho

  8. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Heidelberg and DKFZ Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Frederik Giesel & Uwe Haberkorn

  9. Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, University of California, San Francisco, CA, USA

    Thomas A. Hope

  10. Division of Radiopharmaceutical Chemistry, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) Heidelberg, Heidelberg, Germany

    Klaus Kopka

  11. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Medical Center, University of Rostock, Rostock, Germany

    Bernd J. Krause

  12. Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany

    Felix M. Mottaghy

  13. Department of Nuclear Medicine, Maastricht University Medical Center (MUMC+), Maastricht, The Netherlands

    Felix M. Mottaghy

  14. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA

    Heiko Schöder

  15. Department of Radiology, University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics, Iowa City, IA, USA

    John Sunderland

  16. Pharmaceutical Radiochemistry, Technische Universität München, Walther-Meißner-Str.3, 85748, Garching, Germany

    Hans-Jürgen Wester

  17. Klinik für Nuklearmedizin, Universitätsklinikum Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, 45147, Essen, Germany

    Ken Herrmann

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Matthias Eiber has a research grant from Siemens. Mohsen Beheshti is a member of the Oncology Committee of the EANM. Thomas Hope has research grants from GE Healthcare. Hans-Jürgen Wester is a shareholder of SCINTOMICS. Stefano Fanti is an advisory board member of BED, Bayer, and ANMI, receives travel support from Bayer, GE Healthcare, and Sanofi, and has grants from Movember and BED. All other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Fendler, W.P., Eiber, M., Beheshti, M. et al. 68Ga-PSMA PET/CT: Joint EANM and SNMMI procedure guideline for prostate cancer imaging: version 1.0. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging 44, 1014–1024 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-017-3670-z

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