Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 4 Ascending aorta FDG dual point quantitative parameters in the 50 patients of study population

From: The role of 18FDG PET/CT imaging of aortic atherosclerosis: prospective study and technique optimization

Ascending aorta FDG activity
	Range	Mean	SD	P value
Early SUVmax	0.8 to 2.7	1.772	0.4185	0.2
Delayed SUVmax	0.8 to 3.1	2.140	0.4901	0.02
Retention index percentage	1 to 50%	22%	20	0.01
Grading of delayed FDG activity	Ranging between grade 1 and 2

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