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Not Good News after prostate biospy when MRI didn't look too bad
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@jeffmarc In that case, hopefully they would simply state that there was no uptake (instead of stating that “we’ve told you everything we think is pertinent.”
Still, must have been an SUVmax for blood/liver/parotid.
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Or there was an uptake in the rib, the doctor showed me the results on the display with the ct scan next to it. That rib is lit up red, but small, yet easy to see, but over on CT side he couldn't see anything. I was wanting a biopsy of it, but he said they would not be able to find it. But it was really clear on the PSMA side of display screen. However, not like the prostate, it was a very large bright red area, looked like almost the whole prostate was red?
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I was referring specifically to the rib in my comment. My report about my broken rib didn’t say anything about no uptake, just mentioned it as unknown.
SUV of blood/Liver/parotid are not shown for the following reasons.
Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) is not used or is unreliable for liver assessment in PET scans primarily due to high, variable background metabolic activity and uptake of ¹⁸F-FDG, . LWW
The Standardized Uptake Value (SUV) is rarely used for blood in PET imaging because blood acts as the background distribution for the tracer (FDG) rather than a target for high metabolic activity, and its levels are too variable NIH
The Standardized Uptake Value (SUV)—a quantitative measure of FDG tracer activity in PET scans—is sometimes not used, is unreliable, or is absent in the parotid gland due to high physiological background uptake, the presence of specific low-grade tumors, or technical limitations in detecting small lesions. NIH