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Title
Constant ambient temperature of 24 degrees C significantly reduces FDG uptake by brown adipose tissue in children scanned during the winter.
Authors
Zukotynski, Katherine A; Fahey, Frederic H; Laffin, Stephen; Davis, Royal; Treves, S Ted; Grant, Frederick D; Drubach, Laura A
Abstract
The aim of this study was to determine if warming patients prior to and during (18)F-FDG uptake by controlling the room temperature could decrease uptake by brown adipose tissue (BAT).
Publication
European journal of nuclear medicine and molecular imaging, 2009, Vol 36, Issue 4, p602