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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Apr 14.
Published in final edited form as: Eur J Nucl Med Mol Imaging. 2015 Oct 14;43(2):333–339. doi: 10.1007/s00259-015-3203-6

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Image of PET analysis. SUV is measured in wall of the Ascending aorta in the axial plane (A) starting 1 cm above the origin of coronary vessels and continuing to the bottom of the aortic arch in 5 mm increments (B). Arterial FDG uptake was recorded as a mean of maximum standardized uptake values (SUVmax) of all the slices.