Fluorine-18-α-Methyltyrosine Positron Emission Tomography for Diagnosis and Staging of Lung Cancer: A Clinicopathologic Study

Abstract

[(18)F]FMT PET had no false-positives in the detection of primary tumor and lymph node metastasis and could improve the diagnostic performance in NSCLC. Uptake of [(18)F]FMT correlated with the expression of LAT1 that showed a significant association with cellular proliferation.