The need of standardization and of large clinical studies in an emerging indication of [¹⁸F]FDG PET: the autoimmune encephalitis

Affiliations

• ¹ Nuclear Medicine, Department of Health Science (DISSAL), University of Genoa and IRCCS AOU San Martino-IST, Largo R. Benzi 10, 16132, Genoa, Italy. [email protected].
• ² Department of Nuclear Medicine, Clinica Universidad de Navarra, University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain.
• ³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
• ⁵ Inserm, U1077, Caen, France.
• ⁶ Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, UMR-S1077, Caen, France.
• ⁷ Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, UMR-S1077, Caen, France.
• ⁸ CHU de Caen, U1077, Caen, France.
• ⁹ Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.
• ¹⁰ University of Michigan Ann Arbor , Hamden, Michigan, USA.
• ¹¹ QMC-Quality Medical Consulting , Hamden, Michigan, USA.
• ¹² Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
• ¹³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Bagcilar Education and Research Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
• ¹⁴ Department of Medical Imaging, Geneva University and Geneva University Hospitals, Geneva, Switzerland.
• ¹⁵ Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany.
• ¹⁶ Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicines, Kindai University, Osaka, Japan.
• ¹⁷ Department of Radiology, Veterans Affairs Healthcare System, Greater Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ¹⁸ Department of Radiology & Nuclear Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ¹⁹ Department of Clinical Physiology, Nuclear Medicine and PET, Copenhagen University Hospital, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark.
• ²⁰ Department of Radiology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
• ²¹ Departament of Nuclear Medicine, Hospital das Forças Armadas, Brasilia, Brazil.
• ²² Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Rome, Italy.
• ²³ Department of Nuclear Medicine, Karolinska Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden.
• ²⁴ Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging, CNR, Naples, Italy.
• ²⁵ Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
• ²⁶ Nuclear Medicine Unit, Department of Medical-Surgical Sciences and of Translational Medicine, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
• ²⁷ Department of Molecular Imaging, Austin Health, Melbourne, Australia.
• ²⁸ Department of Medicine, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.
• ²⁹ Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia.