18 F fluoro 2 deoxy 2 D glucose positron emission tomography/computed tomography (FDG PET or CT) in the nononcological setting
Applications of FDG PET in the Nononcological Setting
- Assessment of patients with brain disorders
- • Refractory seizures
- • Neurocognitive disorders
- Assessment of patients with cardiac disorders
- • Myocardial viability
- • Myocardial sarcoidosis
- Assessment of patients with suspected infection
- • Fever of unknown origin (FUO)
- • Infectious endocarditis
- • Osteomyelitis
- • Implanted device infection
- Assessment of patients with noninfectious inflammatory disorders
- • Atherosclerosis
- • Vasculitis
- • Venous thromboembolism
- • Sarcoidosis
- • Interstitial lung disease (ILD)
- • Acute lung injury (ALI)/adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
- • Inflammatory bowel disease
- • Psoriasis
- • Joint disease
- Assessment of alterations in tissue metabolism
- • Skeletal muscle
- • Brown fat