The Reggio Emilia ASMN PET Center was created in 2000. In 2002, a 10 MeV Cyclotron (Minitrace GE) was installed in order to produce clinical ¹⁸F-FDG and ¹⁸F-Choline. A protocol to produce ¹⁸FLT and ¹⁸F-MISO will also be available soon for research purpose.
In 2005, the first PET system was replaced by a GE Discovery STE PET/CT system.
The center is accredited as Center of Excellence of the Italian association of Nuclear Medicine for the problems related to "PET and radiotherapy" and, on these themes, it delivers brief theoretical/practical stages that are opened to physicists, radiotherapists and nuclear physicians.

Male - 75 years old - 160cm - 46kg

In 2002: endoscopic removal of "early gastric cancer".

In 2005: total gastrectomia for local recurrence (diversified adenocarcinoma moderately, presence of metastases in 1 lymph node on 5).

In March 2007: echography with contrast shows a secondary lesion in the 8th liver segment. PET whole-body shows an uptake of 2.2 cm in the same segment. Two radiofrequency thermoablations of the lesion were done. In August a new whole-body PET is negative.

In 2008: echography with contrast shows a new lesion of 20 mm in the 4th segment of the liver.

Scanner: GE Discovery STE

Whole-body PET/CT scan is totally negative.

MotionFree PET/CT scan shows a 7 mm uptake area in the same place of the previous lesion.

The lesion showed by the echography in 2008 was not confirmed as disease. The PET whole-body was negative but a suspected recurrence was found only in the MotionFree acquisition.