Summary:PET is being considered a diagnostic commodity in clinical practice worldwide and thus receives increasing attention by health insurances and governmental organizations. In Germany, however, neither PET nor PET/CT are subject to reimbursement. This renders clinical PET and PET/CT imaging a challenge both in a general hospital environment and in private practice. This article describes briefly these challenges, which are not solely related to turf battles and associated costs.
Somatostatin receptor expression in lymphomas: a source of false diagnosis of neuroendocrine tumor at 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT imaging