UCL Poster Competition 2003/2004 Gallery

PPP - Probing Proliferation with PET

By Dr Farrokh Pakzad
Institute of Nuclear Medicine_

Measuring cellular proliferation in vivo has enormous prognostic implications. The novel PET tracer, 18F-FLT, a thymidine analogue can potentially allow us to do this. We present the results of our study looking at the application of this tracer in colorectal cancer.