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Comparison between visual and numerical metrics for the evaluation of patients with Takayasu arteritis with 18F-FDG-PET

Berivan Emsen, Khadija Benali, Besma Mahida, Delphine Larivière, Dominique Le Guludec, T. Papo, Karim Sacré, Fabien Hyafil

Nuclear Medicine Communications · 2018 · 11 citations · 12 references

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In this study, we found that the analysis of the vascular region with the highest F-FDG uptake using either visual or numerical metrics provided the best diagnostic performance for the detection of active TAK with PET.

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Yasushi Kobayashi, Kenji Ishii, Keiichi Oda et al. · PubMed · 2005 · 268 citations