Table 1.
Basic characteristics of investigated animals.
Figure 1.
CT, fused PET/CT, and PET images.
A Contrast-enhanced CT image. B Fused PET/CT image. C PET image. All images are in sagittal view.
Figure 2.
A Fused PET/CT image, axial view. B Fused PET/CT image with ROI drawn, axial view. C Fused PET/CT image with the ROIs after ROI interpolation, sagittal view. Most, but not the entire aorta is visible.
Table 2.
Primers and probes.
Figure 3.
18F-FDG uptake assessed by SUV.
18F-FDG uptake assessed by SUV expressed as mean±SEM of N = 7–12. *p<0.05, **p<0.01, and ***p<0.001 are groups vs. 0 weeks group. ##p<0.01 and ###p<0.001 are high-fat diet groups vs. normal chow groups at the same age. All p-values were Bonferroni corrected. A 18F-FDG uptake measured by PET. B 18F-FDG uptake measured by gamma counting.
Figure 4.
Correlation plot of PET and gamma counter data.
Correlation plot of SUV values from PET and gamma counter. The 95% confidence interval is indicated by the broken lines.
Table 3.
Univariate linear regression analyses of gene expression relative to 18F-FDG SUVmean.
Figure 5.
Univariate linear regression analysis of gene expression relative to SUVmean. Univariate linear regression analysis of gene expression relative to SUVmean (N = 98).
A CD68 relative to SUVmean. B OPN relative to SUVmean. C TF relative to SUVmean. D VCAM-1 relative to SUVmean. The 95% confidence interval is indicated by the broken lines. All p-values were Bonferroni corrected.