Hepatic glucose metabolism plays a key role in human metabolic homeostasis. In the
current issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Trägårdh et al.(1) examine the challenges …

PET with the glucose analog 18F-FDG is used to measure regional tissue metabolism of
glucose. However, 18F-FDG may have affinities different from those of glucose for plasma …

2-Deoxy-2-18F-fluoro-d-glucose (2-FDG) with PET is undeniably useful in the clinic, being
able, among other uses, to monitor change over time using the 2-FDG SUV metric. This …

Dear Sir, We have read with interest the recent work by Eskian et al. entitled BEffect of blood
glucose level on SUV in 18F-FDG PET-scan: a systematic review and meta-analysis of …

INTRODUCTION: We are developing 18F-labeled 6-fluoro-6-deoxy-d-glucose ([18F] 6FDG)
as a tracer of glucose transport. As part of this process it is important to characterize and …

The lumped constant (LC) is a correction factor used to infer glucose metabolic rate (MRglc)
from FDG metabolic rate (MRFDG). Methods: LC was determined in normal brain in 10 …

PET with 18F-FDG is being used in humans to study regional brain metabolism in normal
and disease states. The underpinning of this approach is that FDG, like glucose, is …

Objective Hyperglycemia has been shown to influence fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (18 F-
FDG) uptake in tumor cells. Therefore, patients are instructed to fast for 6 h, while …

Objective A method of defining the image-derived input function (IDIF) was introduced and
evaluated for the quantification of the regional cerebral metabolic rate of glucose in PET …

TO THE EDITOR: I read with interest the recent publication by Thorn et al.(1) using vena
cava image-derived input functions for quantification of myocardial glucose uptake (MGU) …