Quantification of Atherosclerotic Plaque Activity and Vascular Inflammation using [18-F] Fluorodeoxyglucose Positron Emission Tomography/Computed Tomography (FDG-PET/CT)
- 2 May 2012
- journal article
- video audio-media
- Published by MyJove Corporation in Journal of Visualized Experiments
- No. 63,p. e3777
Abstract
There is great need to identify atherosclerosis non-invasively, and here we demonstrate how FDG-PET/CT can be used to detect and...Keywords
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