Aortic wall inflammation due to Takayasu arteritis imaged with 18F-FDG PET coregistered with enhanced CT

Journal of Nuclear Medicine

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 917-922

  Kobayashi, Yasushi ^a,b   Ishii, Kenji ^c   Oda, Keiichi ^c   Nariai, Tadashi ^a   Tanaka, Youji ^a   Ishiwata, Kiichi ^c   Numano, Fujio ^a  

^a TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF GERONTOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

18F FDG; Aortitis; CT; PET; Takayasu arteritis

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORINE; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AORTA ARCH SYNDROME; AORTA WALL; ARTICLE; BLOOD VESSEL WALL; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VASCULAR LESION; AORTA; AORTITIS; AORTOGRAPHY; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOGRAPHY; SCINTISCANNING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AORTA; AORTITIS; AORTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUORINE RADIOISOTOPES; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TAKAYASU'S ARTERITIS; TOMOGRAPHY, EMISSION-COMPUTED;

EID: 23044452995     PISSN: 01615505     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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