A Voice for Clinical Positron Imaging, A Voice for ICP.

With the advent of the Clinical Positron Imaging journal, a new vehicle has been created to facilitate the dissemination of information relevant to the clinical positron imaging community. In addition to providing technical, scientific, and medical information, this journal will also be used to address financial, regulatory, and legislative issues in clinical positron imaging. Since this is the journal of the Institute for Clinical PET (ICP), all of its members will receive it as an added service of ICP.

Diagnostic accuracy of 2-[fluorine-18]fluro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography imaging in nonsquamous tumors of the head and neck.

Purpose: To evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of 2-[fluorine-18]fluro-2-deoxy-D-glucose positron emission tomography (FDG-PET) for detecting nonsquamous tumors of the extracranial head and neck (NSTHN).

Materials And Methods: The records of all patients with suspected or proven NSTHN undergoing PET imaging in our institution over a 12-year period were reviewed. Forty-four patients (24 males and 20 females; age range, 6-81 years; mean age, 51.