title: Experience of Dual Time Point Brain F-18 FDG PET/CT Imaging in Patients with Infectious Disease.
abstract: Dual time point FDG PET imaging (DTPI) has been considered helpful for discrimination of benign and malignant disease, and staging lymph node status in patients with pulmonary malignancy. However, DTPI for benign disease has been rarely reported, and it may show a better description of metabolic status and extent of benign infectious disease than early imaging only. The authors report on the use F-18 fluorodeoxyglucose (FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) imaging with additional delayed imaging on a 52-year-old man with sparganosis and a 70-year-old man with tuberculous meningitis. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report on dual time point PET/CT imaging in patients with cerebral sparganosis and tuberculous meningitis.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, 344-2 Shinyong-Dong, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, 570-711 Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Dae-Weung
authors.initials: DW
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine and Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, 344-2 Shinyong-Dong, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, 570-711 Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Chang Guhn
authors.initials: CG
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine and Institute of Wonkwang Medical Science, 344-2 Shinyong-Dong, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, 570-711 Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Soon-Ah
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Park
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, 344-2 Shinyong-Dong, Iksan, Jeollabuk-do, 570-711 Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sang-Ah
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Jung
keywords: Cerebral sparganosis; Dual time point imaging; F-18 FDG PET/CT; Tuberculous meningitis