Sentence examples for pathologic uptake from inspiring English sources

Pathologic uptake was observed in five patients.

Fig. 2 Whole-body planar images acquired at approximately 1.5 2.5 h after injection, with pathologic uptake indicated by arrows.

FDG is excreted by the kidney, which may mask pathologic uptake.

FDG uptake areas were categorized as malignant by location, intensity, shape, size, and visual correlation with CT images, to differentiate physiologic from pathologic uptake.

This may lead to false-positive results, but also to false-negative results, as pathologic uptake may become wrongly classified as physiologic.

Artefacts relating to poor patient preparation and scanning technique, normal physiological uptake, anatomical variants, and benign pathologic uptake can mimic disease and pose a diagnostic conundrum.

Each line represents a different patient; the lines with symbols represents the patients with pathologic uptakes.

No statistical differences were found between mean doses and dose distributions in patients with and without pathologic uptakes.

Similarly, no statistical differences were found between mean doses and dose distributions (represented by DVHs) in patients with and without pathologic uptakes.

Combined FDG-PET/CT imaging compared with FDG-PET alone has already facilitated discrimination of physiologic and pathologic FDG uptake by allowing accurate anatomic localization of the FDG uptake.

64CuCl2-PET/CT images (axial and MIP) revealed focal and pathologic tracer uptake (arrows) in correspondence to the prostate apex close to the midline 1 h after the injection (a).