Upsampling from aorta and aortic branches: PET/CT hybrid imaging identified 18F-FDG hypermetabolism in inflamed temporal and occipital arteries

• Autoři: ŘEHÁK Zdeněk; SZTURZ Petr; KŘEN Leoš; FOJTÍK Zdeněk; STANÍČEK Jaroslav
• Rok publikování: 2014
• Druh: Článek v odborném periodiku
• Časopis / Zdroj: CLINICAL NUCLEAR MEDICINE
• Fakulta / Pracoviště MU: Lékařská fakulta
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182868aae
• Obor: Ostatní obory vnitřního lékařství
• Klíčová slova: PET/CT; fluorodeoxyglucose; vasculitis; giant cell arteritis
• Popis: Temporal arteries are typically below detectable levels of PET scanners, which repeatedly showed to be limiting in finding increased F-FDG accumulation even in histologically proven cases of giant cell arteritis. In 2010, Gaemperli and coworkers showed metabolic active inflammation in temporal arteries in an experimental study using PET with [C]-PK11195 combined with CT angiography. Herein, we present the case where an increased accumulation of routinely used tracer F-FDG can be identified directly in temporal and occipital arteries and even in smaller branches using a common hybrid PET/CT scanner if a brain acquisition protocol is applied.

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