Comprehensive Approach to Prostate Cancer Metastasis Mimics at Prostate-Specific Membrane Antigen PET/CT
Prostate-specific membrane antigen PET/CT greatly improves the detection of prostate cancer metastases but is not prostate cancer specific, and a holistic review of lesion location, uptake intensity, imaging features, and clinical context is essential for accurate differentiation between true prostate cancer metastases and false-positive results.
Authors
- Ali Afsari
- Mahbod G Jafarvand (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8555-4787)
- Vahid Yaghmai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1440-3332)
- Maryam Rahmani (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9996-447X)
- Arti Gupta (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1715-5757)
- Niloufar Rafiei Alavi
- Shyam Srinivas
- Sindu Alexander (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-1953-3079)
Institutions
- University of California, Irvine (US)
- University of California, Irvine Medical Center (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Radiographics
- Published
- 2026-07-02
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1148/rg.250164
- Primary Topic
- Prostate Cancer Treatment and Research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00