Application of [18F]NaF and [18F]FDG PET/CT to Assess Molecular Calcification and Glucose Metabolism in Thyroid Cartilage
Niloofaralsadat Motamedi, Shashi Bhushan Singh, Miraziz Ismoilov, Saira K Niazi, Bimash B Shrestha, Malia Ahmed, Om H Gandhi, Thomas J Werner, Drew A Torigian, Abass Alavi, Mona-Elisabeth Revheim · 2026
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Motamedi and a large team use body scans in twenty twenty-six to track how the thyroid cartilage, the shield-shaped throat cartilage, changes with age. Two scan tracers let them measure two things at once. One tracer marks hardening by calcium buildup. The other marks sugar use, a sign of cell activity.
They reviewed scans from over one hundred healthy adults across a wide age span. Hardening rose steadily with age in both women and men. Sugar use, by contrast, showed no clear link to age. The team presents the paired scan method as a new way to study throat cartilage ageing. Such measures could help doctors judge what counts as normal change over a lifetime.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Niloofaralsadat Motamedi, Shashi Bhushan Singh, Miraziz Ismoilov, Saira K Niazi, Bimash B Shrestha, Malia Ahmed, Om H Gandhi, Thomas J Werner, Drew A Torigian, Abass Alavi, Mona-Elisabeth Revheim |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 19 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |