The PET/CT Field Guide (FDG): What Nobody Taught You Before They Put You on the Scanner

Reference guide for imaging technologists. Not medical advice for patients.

You got moved onto PET/CT with a month of training and a handshake. This is the FDG PET/CT guide that should have been handed to you.

Written by a working technologist (ARRT(R), NMTCB(NM), retired U.S. Air Force, travel and mobile PET/CT experience), for cross-trained nuc med techs, travel techs, and anyone starting on a new camera.

"I don't see anything wrong or missing. I would have found this very useful as a new tech. It's very clearly articulated, presented, and organized. I like the visual illustrations, break-downs, and check sheets as guides."

— Mark Chandler, Nuclear Medicine & CT Technologist (received a free review copy)

Inside (27 pages):

• Site Intake Sheet: what to find out on day one at any site
• Attenuation-correction CT vs. diagnostic CT, and how to spot an order asking for more than you can give
• Patient prep and the quiet failures that ruin a study before the injection
• Artifact recognition, troubleshooting under pressure, and a mobile/trailer appendix
• Field notes, the Top 10, and a printable Tool Pack: pre-injection checklist, prep-call script, scanner-fault flow, trailer open/close

How it's built: statements from published guidance are marked with an asterisk (*) and traced in a Source Ledger against the EANM [18F]FDG PET/CT guideline v3.0 (2025) and supplements. Everything without an asterisk is the author's field experience, labeled as such.

Honest limits: this is one technologist's experience plus cited guidance. It has not been reviewed by an outside clinician, physicist, or attorney. It does not replace your site's protocols, physician orders, manufacturer instructions, or your state's rules on scope of practice. Yours govern.

Reference statements are summarized and adapted from the EANM [18F]FDG PET/CT guideline v3.0 (CC BY 4.0). Changes were made. EANM has not reviewed or endorsed this guide.

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