18 F-Fluoride Positron Emission Tomographic Imaging of Penile Arteries and Erectile Dysfunction

• Published in: Journal of the American College of Cardiology Vol. 73; no. 12; p. 1386
• Main Authors: Nakahara, Takehiro, Narula, Jagat, Tijssen, Jan G P, Agarwal, Sunil, Chowdhury, Mohammed M, Coughlin, Patrick A, Dweck, Marc R, Rudd, James H F, Jinzaki, Masahiro, Mulhall, John, Strauss, H William
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Elsevier Limited 02.04.2019
• Subjects: Age; Aged; Arteries; Arteriosclerosis; Atherosclerosis; Blood vessels; Bone cancer; Calcification; Cancer; Cardiology; Cardiovascular disease; Cause-effect relationships; Computation; Computed tomography; Confidence intervals; Diabetes; Emission analysis; Erectile dysfunction; Erectile Dysfunction - diagnostic imaging; Fluorides; Fluorine; Fluorine Radioisotopes; Histopathology; Humans; Hypertension; Image processing; Male; Medical imaging; Metastases; Metastasis; Middle Aged; Patients; Penis; Penis - blood supply; Penis - diagnostic imaging; Pharmaceuticals; Positron emission; Positron emission tomography; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; Prostate cancer; Radiochemical analysis; Radioisotopes; Retrospective Studies; Risk analysis; Risk factors; Sodium; Sodium Fluoride; Software; Studies; Transplants & implants; Urethra; Work stations; atherosclerosis; NaF; calcification; erectile dysfunction; sodium fluoride

Fluorine-18 sodium fluoride (NaF), a bone-seeking radiopharmaceutical used to detect osseous metastases, localizes in regions of microcalcification in atherosclerosis. To determine if atherosclerosis of penile arteries plays a role in erectile dysfunction (ED), this study analyzed NaF images in pros...