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PET Imaging of Infection and Inflammation
The introduction of 18F-fluoro-2-deoxglucose (FDG) in 1976 as a joint effort between investigators at the University of Pennsylvania and Brookhaven National Laboratory opened a new era in medical imag...
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Abass Alavi,
Hongming Zhuang
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Promising Roles of PET in Management of Arthroplasty-Associated Infection
A number of diagnostic tests is often necessary to differentiate aseptic loosening from periprosthetic infection in most clinical settings. The accuracy of [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose examined with positr...
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Babak Saboury,
Pouya Ziai,
Molly Parsons,
Hongming Zhuang,
Sandip Basu,
Abass Alavi
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FDG PET and PET/CT Imaging in Complicated Diabetic Foot
This article reviews the published data on the utilization of [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) and PET/CT imaging in patients with complicated diabetic foot. Three area...
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Sandip Basu,
Hongming Zhuang,
Abass Alavi
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FDG PET Assessment of Osteomyelitis: A Review
This article discusses the role of [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) PET and PET/computed tomography in diagnosis and therapeutic response assessment for the management of patients with osteomyelitis, to ...
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Phyllis Dioguardi,
Santosh R. Gaddam,
Hongming Zhuang,
Drew A. Torigian,
Abass Alavi
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Fever of Unknown Origin: The Roles of FDG PET or PET/CT
13 February 2012
Despite advances in medicine in the past decades, fever of unknown origin (FUO) remains a challenging and common clinical problem. There are many different etiologies for FUO. Positron emission tomogr...
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Jigang Yang,
Hongming Zhuang,
Sabah Servaes
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PET/CT in Patients with Sarcoidosis or IgG4 Disease
13 February 2012
Sarcoidosis as a distinct disease entity was diagnosed more than 100 years ago. The signs and symptoms of the disease are nonspecific, posing a challenge for early and accurate diagnosis. IgG4 disease...
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Jian Q. Yu,
Mohan Doss,
Ion Codreanu,
Hongming Zhuang
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Utilization of FDG PET/CT in the Management of Inflammation and Infection in Patients with Malignancies
20 February 2012
[18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG)-PET/computed tomography has become an established modality. High-resolution PET images are superior to those provided by most single-photon–emitting tracers. Apart from i...
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Bing Xu,
Yuejian Liu,
Ion Codreanu
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The Utility of FDG PET/CT in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
16 February 2012
Inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) are chronic immune mediated inflammatory diseases that affect the gastrointestinal tract. Two distinct entities are recognized: Crohn disease (CD) and ulcerative coli...
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Roland Hustinx
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FDG PET Imaging of Large-Vessel Vasculitis
Diagnosis of vasculitis is challenging given the nonspecific manifestations of the diseases. [18F]Fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) has been increasingly used for vasculitis ...
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Qi Cao,
Wengan Chen
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Assessment of Therapy Response by FDG PET in Infection and Inflammation
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a well-known imaging modality in assessing the treatment response to chemotherapy or radiotherapy in various malignancies. A systematic review of the literature r...
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Rakesh Kumar,
Sellam Karunanithi,
Hongming Zhuang,
Abass Alavi
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