When to image carotid plaque inflammation with FDG PET/CT

Nuclear Medicine Communications

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 773-779

  Graebea, Martin ^a   Borgwardtb, Lise ^a   Højgaardb, Liselotte ^a   Sillesena, Henrik ^a   Kjaerc, Andreas ^b  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Carotid; Emission time; FDG; PET; Timing

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAROTID ARTERY; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG UPTAKE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RADIODIAGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VENOUS BLOOD;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CAROTID STENOSIS; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; INFLAMMATION; INJECTIONS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 77956869390     PISSN: 01433636     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MNM.0b013e32833c365e     Document Type: Article

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