1. Imaging of active calcification by PET/CT with [18]F Sodium Fluoride
Imaging of active calcification by PET/CT with [18]F Sodium Fluoride. NaF PET/CT imaging of left and right internal carotid arteries of active calcification in a 72-year-old symptomatic patient evaluated at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute.
Imaging of active calcification by PET/CT with [18]F Sodium Fluoride. NaF PET/CT imaging of left and right internal carotid arteries of active calcification in a 72-year-old symptomatic patient evaluated at the University of Ottawa Heart Institute. Upper row: evidence of NaF uptake with a small foci of calcification on CT in the left internal carotid symptomatic culprit vessel. There is a mismatch between the region of NaF uptake and calcification on CT. Lower row: evidence of calcium nodules with matched NaF uptake at the right internal carotid artery. PET,  positron emission tomography. (Reproduced by permission of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology from: Cocker MS, Mc Ardle B, Spence JD, et al. Imaging atherosclerosis with hybrid [(18)F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/CT imaging: What Leonardo da Vinci could not see. J Nucl Cardiol 2012;19:1211–25.)‏
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