Figure 2.
Representative images from 7 patients with the highest maximal myocardial standard uptake value (SUVmax) from each diet plan (LC, Low-carbohydrate; HFLC, high-fat and low-carbohydrate; UR, unrestricted). In all cases, the myocardium exhibits greater uptake than the liver and mediastinum. Only LC dietary preparation resulted in patients with SUVmax < 5.0 in this group (the top 3 examples in the leftmost column). The visual impression that not all myocardial uptake appeared to increase in correspondence to increasing SUVmax (e.g., the LC patient with SUVmax of 7.9) is because image contrast has been individually adjusted to show neighboring structures