The clinical application of PET imaging in pediatric intracranial tumors

Pediatric intracranial tumors have a high incidence rate,which are the most common malignancies in children population.As a kind of safe functional imaging technique,PET could provide more biochemical and metabolic information,and play a clinical impact on predicing the histological grading,guiding biopsy and surgey procedure,evaluating the outcome in childhood intracranial tumors.