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Title
  • en 11C-Methionine positron emission tomography may monitor the activity of encephalitis
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  • en Acta Radiol, December 2012, 53(10), pp.1155-1157, doi: 10.1258/ar.2012.120382. This is the final draft, after peer-review, of a manuscript published in Acta Radiologica. The definitive version, detailed above, is available online at www.rsmjournals.com.
Subject
  • Other en Encephalitis
  • Other en positron emission tomography
  • Other en methionine
  • Other en therapy monitoring
  • NDC 492
Description
  • Abstract en Encephalitis is generally diagnosed by clinical symptoms, cerebrospinal fluid examination, and imaging studies including CT, MR imaging and perfusion single photon emission tomography (SPECT). However, the role of positron emission tomography (PET) in diagnosis of encephalitis remains unclear. A 49-year-old woman presenting with coma and elevated inflammatory reaction was diagnosed as having encephalitis according to slow activity on electroencephalogram, broad cortical lesion in MR fluid attenuated inversion recovery image, and increased blood flow demonstrated by SPECT. PET revealed increased accumulation of 11C-methionine (MET) in the affected brain tissues. After the symptom had improved two months later, the accumulation of MET as well as the abnormal findings of MR imaging and SPECT was normalized. This case indicated that MET PET may monitor the activity of encephalitis.
Publisher en Royal Society of Medicine Press
Date
    Issued2012-12
Language
  • eng
Resource Type journal article
Version Type AM
Identifier HDL http://hdl.handle.net/2115/52053
Relation
  • isVersionOf DOI https://doi.org/10.1258/ar.2012.120382
  • PMID 22993272
Journal
    • PISSN 0284-1851
      • en Acta Radiologica
      • Volume Number53 Issue Number10 Page Start1155 Page End1157
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