Abstracts tagged "vasculitis and 18FDG PET/CT scan"

Abstract Number: 2922 • ACR/ARP Annual Meeting 2019
Imaging Acquisition Technique Influences Interpretation of Positron Emission Tomography Vascular Activity in Large-Vessel Vasculitis
Kaitlin Quinn¹, Joel S. Rosenblum ², Casey A. Rimland ³, K Bates Gribbons ⁴, Mark A. Ahlman ⁵ and Peter C. Grayson ⁶, ¹Georgetown University Hospital/National Institutes of Health, Washington, DC, ²National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ³National Institute of Arthritis, Musculoskeletal and Skin Disease (NIAMS), Bethesda, MD, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, NC, Chapel Hill, NC, ⁴National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, ⁵Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD, ⁶National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS) of the National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, Bethesda, MD
Background/Purpose: 18F-flurodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET) is one of several imaging modalities used in the assessment of patients with large-vessel vasculitis (LVV). Conventionally PET…