18F-FDG PET and intravascular ultrasonography (IVUS) images compared with histology of atherosclerotic plaques: 18F-FDG accumulates in foamy macrophages

European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 624-633

  Ishino, Seigo ^a   Ogawa, Mikako ^b   Mori, Ikuo ^a   Nishimura, Satoshi ^a   Ikeda, Shota ^a   Sugita, Taku ^a   Oikawa, Tatsuo ^a   Horiguchi, Takashi ^a   Magata, Yasuhiro ^b  

^a TAKEDA PHARMACEUTICAL COMPANY LIMITED   (Japan)

^b HAMAMATSU UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Foam cells; Intravascular ultrasonography; Positron emission tomography

Indexed keywords

EOSIN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE H 3; HEMATOXYLIN; IOPAMIDOL; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACCUMULATION; ECHOGRAPHY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMAGING CATHETER; IMAGING SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASONOGRAPHY; INTRAVASCULAR ULTRASONOGRAPHY SYSTEM; MACROPHAGE; MYOFIBROSIS; NONHUMAN; PET SCANNER; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; SMOOTH MUSCLE FIBER; WATANABE HERITABLE HYPERLIPIDEMIC RABBIT; ANIMAL; AORTA; COMPARATIVE STUDY; ENDOSCOPIC ECHOGRAPHY; FOAM CELL; PATHOLOGY; RABBIT; SCINTISCANNING;

ANIMALS; AORTA; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; FOAM CELLS; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; RABBITS; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; ULTRASONOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL;

EID: 84897024574     PISSN: 16197070     EISSN: 16197089     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00259-013-2635-0     Document Type: Article

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