Characterizing Inflammatory Bowel Disease With 68Ga-FAPI PET/CT

Summary

68Ga-FAPI has been developed as a tumor-targeting agent as fibroblast activation protein is overexpressed in cancer-associated fibroblasts and some inflammation,such as inflammatory bowel disease. And it might be more sensitive than FDG in detecting a certain type of inflammations according to our preliminary research. Thus this prospective study is going to investigate whether 68Ga-FAPI PET/CT may be superior for diagnosis, therapy response assessment and follow-up of inflammatory bowel disease than 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Timeline

Start

2020-08-01

Primary completion

2022-01-01

Completion

2022-12-01

Publications

• Luo Y, Pan Q, Xu H, Zhang R, Li J, Li F. Active uptake of 68Ga-FAPI in Crohn's disease but not in ulcerative colitis. Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2021 May;48(5):1682-1683. doi: 10.1007/s00259-020-05129-7. Epub 2020 Nov 27. No abstract available.

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