Description of the Appearance of Brown Fat in Scanner

University Hospital, Brest200 enrolled

Overview

The aim of this study is to investigate aspects of brown fat in scanner with injection via the PET-CT study.

Brown fat is metabolically active adipose tissue. It can be responsible in PET-CT of a fixation of 18-FDG and a look of pseudo-infiltration of fat. These aspects can be sources of false positives. The objective here is to gain a better knowledge of the scanner in areas of brown fat.

Study Type

OBSERVATIONAL

Enrollment

200

Conditions

Description of Brown Fat

Eligibility

Sex: ALLMin age: 18 Years

Medical Language ↔ Plain English

Inclusion Criteria: * Consecutive patients since June 2014, who underwent a thoraco-abdominopelvic PET-CT examination with 18F-FDG in the University Hospital of Brest, in a clinical setting which warranted. * Major Patients * No opposition formalized Exclusion Criteria: * Refusal of participation

Locations (1)

CHRU de Brest

Brest, France

Outcomes

Primary Outcomes

Density value

measured by CT and expressed in Hounsfield Units

Time frame: 1 year

Secondary Outcomes

Standard Uptake Values (SUV) adipose tissue "white" and "brown".

SUV maximum and average

Time frame: 1 year

Data from ClinicalTrials.gov

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