EJNMMI Research

Table 2 Distribution of spinal lesions on PET/CT and MRI

From: High bone turnover assessed by 18F-fluoride PET/CT in the spine and sacroiliac joints of patients with ankylosing spondylitis: comparison with inflammatory lesions detected by whole body MRI

	u-aCIL	u-pCIL	l-aCIL	l-pCIL	u-LIL ri	u-LIL le	I-LIL ri	I-LIL le	NIL	CPIL	PIL	FIL
Patient 1
PET/CT									C6		Th10
MRI		L3		L1, L2	S1	S1	L5	L5
Patient 2
PET/CT
MRI
Patient 3
PET/CT
MRI
Patient 4
PET/CT									Th11			Th6, L3, S1
MRI
Patient 5
PET/CT	L2
MRI	Th4
Patient 6
PET/CT											Th6
MRI
Patient 7
PET/CT	Th2, Th3, Th 5-10					Th7			Th8, Th10		Th1-12	L1
MRI	Th1, Th3, Th8, Th10-12	Th5	Th2, Th8-12, L2	Th4	L1-3	Th3, Th7	L2, L3	Th3-5, L2	Th9-11		Th3-10, L1, L4	Th3-7, Th12
Patient 8
PET/CT			C3				C5					Th5
MRI						L5
Patient 9
PET/CT							C5
MRI	C7, Th1, L4, L5	C6, C7	C6	C5, C6	C6, Th1		C5
Patient 10
PET/CT											Th10	Th10
MRI	Th5		Th4

a, anterior; CIL, corner inflammatory lesion; CPIL, cervical posterior inflammatory lesion; FIL, facet joint inflammatory lesion; l, lower; le, left; LIL, lateral inflammatory lesion; NIL, non-corner inflammatory lesion; p, posterior; PIL, posterior element inflammatory lesion; u, upper; ri, right.

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