Society of Nuclear Medicine

Caffeine interferes with image results for known or suspected cancers

Published in Telemedicine Week, July 12th, 2005

Patients who need a positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) procedure to evaluate potential known or suspected malignancies should forgo coffee before the test, according to the results of study released at the Society of Nuclear Medicine's 52nd Annual Meeting in Toronto.

"It is advisable for patients to stop caffeine intake for a 24-hour period prior to imaging," said SNM member Medhat M. Osman, MD, ScM, PhD, assistant professor in the department of internal medicine's division of nuclear medicine and director of PET at St. Louis University Hospital, St. Louis, Mo. The study, "Correlation between Myocardial Uptake and Caffeine Intake: Detection With...

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