Nucl Med Mol Imaging.
2010 Jun;44(2):137-142.
Experience of Dual Time Point Brain F-18 FDG PET/CT Imaging in Patients with Infectious Disease
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- 1Department of Nuclear Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, 344-2 Shinyong-Dong, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do 570-711, Republic of Korea. akaxan@naver.com
- 2Department of Nuclear Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine and Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, 344-2 Shinyong-Dong, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do 570-711, Republic of Korea.
Abstract
- Dual time point FDG PET imaging (DTPI) has been considered helpful for discrimination of benign and malignant disease, and staging lymph node status in patients with pulmonary malignancy. However, DTPI for benign disease has been rarely reported, and it may show a better description of metabolic status and extent of benign infectious disease than early imaging only. The authors report on the use F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging with additional delayed imaging on a 52-year-old man with sparganosis and a 70-year-old man with tuberculous meningitis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on dual time point PET/CT imaging in patients with cerebral sparganosis and tuberculous meningitis.
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