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This special supplement to The Journal of Nuclear Medicine is a detailed tabulation of literature on FDG PET in oncology (1993–June 2000), cardiology (1986–June 2000), and neurology (1980–June 2000). This document is a subset of the original document formally submitted to the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) in July 2000 to request expanded Medicare reimbursement for FDG PET. It has been improved by eliminating any errors in tabulation and further clarified as the result of comments from an independent review of the original HCFA submission. This document also differs from the original HCFA submission in that it does not include some background sections and lacks references that were identified but not used because of specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. The goal of this document is to provide a summary of all FDG PET literature for the specified periods, with tabulated values of …