Abstracts tagged "osteoarthritis and positron emission tomography (PET)"

Abstract Number: 264 • ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting 2017
A Novel Method to Assess Subchondral Bone Formation Using Naf-PET in the Evaluation of Knee Osteoarthritis
Venkata S. Jonnakuti¹, William Y. Raynor¹, Elena G. Taratuta¹, Abass Alavi² and Joshua Baker³, ¹Radiology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ²Department of Radiology/Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, ³Rheumatology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Background/Purpose: Previous studies using 18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography (NaF-PET) have quantified the increase in bone formation associated with osteoarthritic (OA) abnormalities with the maximum…