Table of Figures

Table of Figures

Figure 1:
Symmetric, physiologic FDG uptake is localized to the buccinator muscle, the palate mucosa, lateral pterygoid muscles, and the nasopharyngeal lymphoid tissue.
Figure 2:
Symmetric, physiologic FDG uptake is localized to the mylohyoid muscle, submandibular glands, and the lingual tonsil.
Figure 3:
Slightly asymmetric, physiologic FDG uptake is localized to the mylohyoid muscle, submandibular glands, and the anterior tonsillar pillars.
Figure 4:
Physiologic FDG uptake is localized to the cricopharyngeus muscle.
Figure 5:
Asymmetric, physiologic FDG uptake in the right mylohyoid muscle, simulates neoplasm on the axial PET.
Figure 6:
Symmetric, physiologic FDG uptake is localized to the palatine tonsils.
Figure 7:
Symmetric, physiologic FDG uptake is localized to the submandibular.
Figure 8:
Symmetric, physiologic FDG uptake is localized to the true vocal cords and the pharyngeal constrictors in a patient who was coughing during the FDG uptake phase.
Figure 9:
Symmetric, physiologic FDG uptake is localized to the true vocal cords in a patient who was talking during the FDG uptake phase.
Figure 10:
Asymmetric superphysiologic uptake was localized to the right true vocal cord on the PET (a) simulating laryngeal neoplasm. The fused PET/CT image (b) demonstrates the contralateral paralyzed vocal cord and localizes the FDG uptake to a normal right true vocal cord. These findings were confirmed at direct laryngoscopy.