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

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Title in English Upsampling From Aorta and Aortic Branches PET/CT Hybrid Imaging Identified F-18-FDG Hypermetabolism in Inflamed Temporal and Occipital Arteries
Authors

ŘEHÁK Zdeněk SZTURZ Petr KŘEN Leoš FOJTÍK Zdeněk STANÍČEK Jaroslav

Year of publication 2014
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source CLINICAL NUCLEAR MEDICINE
MU Faculty or unit

Faculty of Medicine

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/RLU.0b013e3182868aae
Field Other specializations of internal medicine
Keywords PET/CT; fluorodeoxyglucose; vasculitis; giant cell arteritis
Description 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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