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Fig. 5

From: Preliminary clinical assessment of dynamic carbon-11 methionine positron-emission tomography/computed tomography for the diagnosis of the pathologies in patients with musculoskeletal lesions: a prospective study

Fig. 5

An 85-year-old woman with diffuse large B cell lymphoma in the right thigh. Dynamic positron-emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) (a–d) images are shown. In all dynamic phases (a–d), methionine accumulation in the soft tissue tumour is inhomogeneous, and intense accumulation is identifiable in the peripheral regions from the dynamic first phase (SUVmax: dynamic first phase (a), 11.42; dynamic second phase (b), 11.91; dynamic third phase, 13.52; dynamic fourth phase (c), 13.57; dynamic fifth phase, 13.21; dynamic sixth phase (d), 15.07). The accumulation gradually becomes more intense in most parts of the tumour during the dynamic phases (a–d). The time-SUVmax curve (e) shows a high level in SUVmax at the dynamic first phase (5–15 min after injection) and a gradual increase during the dynamic phases

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