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  1. Alex G. Boutselis, M.D.

    Alex G. Boutselis, M.D.

    1. Radiologist
    1. Phoenix, AZ
    Areas of focus:

    Emergency care, Abdominal CT scan, Trauma care, Thyroid scan, X-ray, MRI, CT scan, Ultrasound, Bone scan, Nuclear medic...ine scan, Positron emission tomography scan, Focused ultrasound, Abdominal ultrasound, Brain MRI , Chest x-ray, Brain CT scan, CT angiogram, Doppler ultrasound, Stroke, Traumatic brain injury, Thyroid disease, Pneumothorax, Pulmonary embolism, Pneumonia, Diverticulitis, Gastrointestinal bleeding, Small bowel obstruction, Appendicitis, Infection, Pelvis fracture, Spinal compression fracture, Traumatic injury, Pediatric trauma, Bone metastasis, Intracranial hemorrhage, Head trauma, Gastrointestinal perforation, Metastatic spinal cord compression, Pathologic fracture, Cancer treatment related morbidity, Abdominal wall injury, Abdominal injury, Chest injury, Traumatic spine injury

  2. Douglas A. Collins, M.D.

    Douglas A. Collins, M.D.

    1. Radiologist
    1. Rochester, MN
    Areas of focus:

    SPECT scan, Positron emission tomography scan

  3. Jolanta M. Durski, M.D.

    Jolanta M. Durski, M.D.

    1. Nuclear Medicine Specialist
    1. Rochester, MN
    Areas of focus:

    Positron emission tomography scan, Radiopharmaceutical therapy, Neuroendocrine tumor, Thyroid cancer, Pancreatic neuroe...ndocrine tumor

  4. Christopher H. Hunt, M.D.

    Christopher H. Hunt, M.D.

    1. Radiologist
    2. Neurologist
    1. Rochester, MN
    Areas of focus:

    PET/CT scan, Positron emission tomography scan, Epilepsy

  5. Manoj K. Jain, M.D.

    Manoj K. Jain, M.D.

    1. Radiologist
    2. Nuclear Medicine Specialist
    1. Jacksonville, FL
    Areas of focus:

    PET/MRI scan, Thyroid scan, Nuclear medicine scan, Positron emission tomography scan, Neuroendocrine tumor, Pancreatic ...neuroendocrine tumor

  6. Val Lowe, M.D.

    Val Lowe, M.D.

    1. Nuclear Medicine Specialist
    1. Rochester, MN
    Areas of focus:

    PET/MRI scan, Positron emission tomography scan

  7. Francisco J. Maldonado, M.D.

    Francisco J. Maldonado, M.D.

    1. Radiologist
    2. Nuclear Medicine Specialist
    1. Rochester, MN
    Areas of focus:

    Breast biopsy, Mammogram, Breast MRI, SPECT scan, Positron emission tomography scan, Contrast-enhanced mammogram, Radio...pharmaceutical therapy

  8. Ba D. Nguyen, M.D.

    Ba D. Nguyen, M.D.

    1. Radiologist
    1. Phoenix, AZ
    Areas of focus:

    MRI, CT scan, Ultrasound, Nuclear medicine scan, Positron emission tomography scan, Nuclear stress test, Breast cancer,... Hyperparathyroidism, Melanoma

  9. Anshuman J. Panda, Ph.D.

    Anshuman J. Panda, Ph.D.

    1. Medical Physicist
    1. Phoenix, AZ
    Areas of focus:

    Radiation therapy, MRI, Positron emission tomography scan

  10. Robert A. Pooley, Ph.D.

    Robert A. Pooley, Ph.D.

    1. Medical Physicist
    1. Jacksonville, FL
    Areas of focus:

    MRI, Positron emission tomography scan

Research

Mayo Clinic radiologists and other healthcare professionals study how to use PET scans to find diseases early and plan treatment. In 2012, Mayo Clinic received approval from the Food and Drug Administration to make and give choline C-11 injections. Choline C-11 is an imaging agent used during positron emission tomography (PET) scans to help find prostate cancer that has come back, also called recurrent prostate cancer. Mayo Clinic was the first FDA-approved facility to produce choline C-11.

Publications

See a list of publications about PET scans by Mayo authors on PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine.

Research Profiles

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Positron emission tomography (PET) scan care at Mayo Clinic

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  1. PET/CT. RadiologyInfo. https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/PET. Accessed March 18, 2026.
  2. Fact sheet: What is PET? Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. https://snmmi.org/Patients/Patients/Fact-Sheets/What-is-PET.aspx. Accessed March 18, 2026.
  3. Unterrainer M, et al. Recent advances of PET imaging in clinical radiation oncology. Radiation Oncology. 2020; doi:10.1186/s13014-020-01519-1.
  4. Adam A, et al., eds. Functional and molecular imaging for personalized medicine in oncology. In: Grainger and Allison's Diagnostic Radiology. 7th ed. Elsevier; 2021. https://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed March 26, 2026.
  5. ACR-SPR practice parameters for performing FDG-PET/CT in oncology. American College of Radiology. https://gravitas.acr.org/PPTS. Accessed March 18, 2026.
  6. Cervical cancer. RadiologyInfo. https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/cervicalcancer. Accessed March 27, 2026.
  7. Singnurkar A, et al. Head-to-head comparison of the diagnostic performance of FDG PET/CT and FDG PET/MRI in patients with cancer: A systematic review and meta-analysis. American Journal of Roentgenology. 2024; doi:10.2214/AJR.24.31519.
  8. Choline C‑11 (approval letter). New Drug Application 203155. U.S. Food and Drug Administration. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/daf/index.cfm?event=overview.process&ApplNo=203155. Accessed March 30, 2026.
  9. Ferri FF. Diagnostic imaging. In: Ferri's Best Test: A Practical Guide to Clinical Laboratory Medicine and Diagnostic Imaging. 5th ed. Elsevier; 2023. https://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed March 26, 2026.
  10. Gelardi F, et al. Match point: Nuclear medicine imaging for recurrent thyroid cancer in TENIS syndrome-systematic review and meta-analysis. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2024; doi:10.3390/jcm13185362.
  11. Datta D, et al. Diagnostic performance of F-18 FDG PET/CT in differentiating autoimmune pancreatitis from pancreatic cancer: A systemic review and meta-analysis. Annals of Nuclear Medicine. 2024; doi:10.1007/s12149-024-01934-4.
  12. Verger A, et al. Joint EANM/EANO/RANO/SNMMI practice guideline/procedure standard for PET imaging of brain metastases: Version 1.0. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2025; doi:10.1007/s00259-024-07038-5.
  13. Carlson DM, et al. Baseline characteristics and use of pretherapeutic 18 F-fluorodeoxyglucose-PET for pancreatic cancer. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 2024; doi:10.1097/XCS.0000000000001059.
  14. Evangelista L, et al. The role of FDG PET/CT or PET/MRI in assessing response to neoadjuvant therapy for patients with borderline or resectable pancreatic cancer: A systematic literature review. Annals of Nuclear Medicine. 2021; doi:10.1007/s12149-021-01629-0.
  15. PSMA PET scan for prostate cancer. Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/psma-pet-scan/about/pac-20582225. Accessed March 27, 2026.
  16. Fendler WP, et al. PSMA PET/CT: Joint EANM procedure guideline/SNMMI procedure standard for prostate cancer imaging 2.0. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2023; doi:10.1007/s00259-022-06089-w.
  17. Radiation dose. RadiologyInfo.org. https://www.radiologyinfo.org/en/info/safety-xray. Accessed March 27, 2026.
  18. Voter AF, et al. A practical guide to the pearls and pitfalls of PSMA PET imaging. Seminars in Nuclear Medicine. 2023; doi:10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2023.11.001.
  19. Samim A, et al. SUV normalisation and reference tissue selection for [18F]mFBG PET-CT in paediatric and adult patients. European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. 2025; doi:10.1007/s00259-025-07242-x.
  20. Choline C-11 PET scan. Mayo Clinic. https://www.mayoclinic.org/tests-procedures/choline-c-11-pet-scan/about/pac-20384628. Accessed March 30, 2026.
  21. FDA approves 11C-choline for PET in prostate cancer. Journal of Nuclear Medicine. 2012; 53:11N.

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