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Prospective Evaluation of Physiologic Uptake Detected with True Whole-Body ¹⁸F-FDG PET/CT in Healthy Subjects

¹ Department of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training, Edward and Margaret Doisy College of Health Sciences, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri; and ² Division of Nuclear Medicine, Department of Radiology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, Missouri

View larger version (39K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIGURE 1.  Representative 8F-FDG PET scan in coronal view of symmetric muscle uptake in forearms (arrows), hands (arrows), and anterior crural compartments (arrows) in control subject.

View larger version (30K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIGURE 2.  Representative 18F-FDG PET scan in coronal view (A) and transaxial view (B) of asymmetric muscle uptake in wrist or finger extensor muscles (arrow) in control subject. (C) Transaxial CT image used for muscle identification. (D) Fused PET/CT image showing asymmetric muscle uptake in wrist or finger extensor muscles (arrow).

View larger version (20K): [in this window] [in a new window]   FIGURE 3.  Representative 18F-FDG PET scan in coronal view (A) and transaxial view (B) of asymmetric muscle uptake in anterior crural compartment (arrow) in subject in activity group. (C) Transaxial CT image used for muscle identification. (D) Fused PET/CT image showing asymmetric muscle uptake in anterior crural compartment (arrow).