Molecular imaging of carotid artery atherosclerosis with PET: a systematic review.

Reza PiriOke GerkePoul F Høilund-Carlsen

Published in: European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging (2019)

FDG-PET visualizes the inflammatory part of carotid atherosclerosis enabling risk stratification to a certain degree, whereas NaF-PET seems to indicate long-term consequences of ongoing inflammation by demonstrating microcalcification allowing discrimination of atherosclerotic from normal arteries and suggesting clinically significant carotid atherosclerosis.

Keyphrases

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positron emission tomography
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