Internal tissue references for ¹⁸Fluorodeoxyglucose vascular inflammation imaging: Implications for cardiovascular risk stratification and clinical trials

• Mark A. Ahlman ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: mark.ahlman@nih.gov

  Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3906-2084

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• Davis M. Vigneault,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Department of Engineering, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, Sackler School of Graduate Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, United States of America

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• Veit Sandfort,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Roberto Maass-Moreno,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Jenny Dave,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Ahmed Sadek,

  Roles Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Marissa B. Mallek,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Mariana A. F. Selwaness,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Peter Herscovitch,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation PET Research Department, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• Nehal N. Mehta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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• David A. Bluemke

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Radiology and Imaging Sciences, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States of America

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