Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine

Table 7 Descending abdominal 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

Abdominal aorta FDG activity
	Range	Mean	SD	P value
Early SUVmax	1.0 to 2.9	1.954	0.433	0.555
Delayed SUVmax	1.2 to 3.4	2.226	0.546	0.0213
Retention index percentage	0 to 45%	15%	17	0.0001
Grading of delayed FDG activity	Ranging between grade 1 and 2

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