Prospective evaluation of physiologic uptake detected with true whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT in healthy subjects

Journal of Nuclear Medicine Technology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-37

  Reinking, Mark F ^a   Osman, Medhat M ^b  

^a SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

PET; 18F FDG; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY SCANNER; DRUG DISTRIBUTION; DRUG UPTAKE; EVALUATION; FALSE POSITIVE RESULT; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; WHOLE BODY IMAGING;

EID: 62549145702     PISSN: 00914916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2967/jnmt.108.055004     Document Type: Article

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