Initial clinical test of a breast-PET scanner.

Introduction: The goal of this initial clinical study was to test a new positron emission/tomography imager and biopsy system (PEM/PET) in a small group of selected subjects to assess its clinical imaging capabilities. Specifically, the main task of this study is to determine whether the new system can successfully be used to produce images of known breast cancer and compare them to those acquired by standard techniques.

Methods: The PEM/PET system consists of two pairs of rotating radiation detectors located beneath a patient table.