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Effective Reduction of Brown Fat FDG Uptake by Controlling Environmental Temperature Prior to PET Scan: an Expanded Case Series

Carlos Alexandre Borges Garcia, Varalakshmi Bandaru, Douglas Van Nostrand, Shyam Chennupati, Frank Atkins, Elmo Acio, Kanchan Kulkarni, Massoud Majd

Molecular Imaging and Biology · 2010 · 13 citations · 17 references

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Nonshivering thermogenesis in the rat. II. Measurements of blood flow with microspheres point to brown adipose tissue as the dominant site of the calorigenesis induced by noradrenaline

David O. Foster, M. Lorraine Frydman · Canadian Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology · 1978 · 651 citations

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Brown adipose tissue: a factor to consider in symmetrical tracer uptake in the neck and upper chest region

Thomas F. Hany, Esmaiel Gharehpapagh, Ehab M. Kamel et al. · European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging · 2002 · 503 citations

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Uptake in supraclavicular area fat ("USA-Fat"): description on 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Christian Cohade, Medhat Osman, Harpreet K. Pannu et al. · PubMed · 2003 · 444 citations

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Patterns of (18)F-FDG uptake in adipose tissue and muscle: a potential source of false-positives for PET.

Henry Yeung, Ravinder K. Grewal, Mithat Gönen et al. · PubMed · 2003 · 377 citations

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"USA-Fat": prevalence is related to ambient outdoor temperature-evaluation with 18F-FDG PET/CT.

Christian Cohade, Karen Mourtzikos, Richard L. Wahl · PubMed · 2003 · 296 citations

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