Abstract
SummaryAim: The study investigates whether early dynamic PET/CT (edPET/CT) using 18F-fluoro- deoxyglucose (FDG) discriminates between affected versus non-affected sites in patients with complicated, protracted fracture healing and suspected COM in the lower extremities. Patients, methods: In nine consecutive patients (1 woman, 8 men; age 54 ± 13 years), before standard late FDG-PET/CT, altogether 10 edFDG-PET/CT examinations were performed in list mode over 5 min starting with radiopharmaceutical injection. Eight consecutive time intervals (frames), four 15-s, then four 60-s, were reconstructed. For every patient, several volumes-of-interest were selected. To measure early FDG influx and accumulation, maximum and mean ed standardized uptake values (respectively, ed SUVmax, edSUVmean) were calculated in each volume-of-interest during each frame. Results were compared between affected and non-affected (contralateral) bone. Results: Starting in the 31-45s frame, the affected bone area showed significantly higher ed- SUVmax and edSUVmean than did the healthy contralateral region. In conventional PET/CT, affected bone areas also significantly differed from non-affected contralateral regions. Conclusion: This pilot study suggests that edFDG- PET may offer a less time consuming add on to standard FDG-PET/CT while being equally accurate. The results should be validated pros- pectively in larger trials.
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