Fig. 2.

Inflammation and glucose metabolism after occlusion of the middle cerebral artery (MCAo). Left column: glucose consumption rate constant (K_glc) determined from [¹⁸F]FDG-PET; middle column: binding potential (BP_ND) of [¹¹C]PK11195 binding for localization of inflammation; right column: structural T2 weighted MRI image. Top row: two days after MCAo, middle row: 7 days after MCAo, bottom row: 42 days after MCAo. In the region marked by the crosshairs, the presence of inflammation at day seven was accompanied by a relative increase of glucose metabolism from day 2 to day 7. Data are taken from the same rat and spatially co-registered to the data shown in Fig. 1. In each column left: coronal section, right: axial section. Locations of the sections are indicated by white markers.