Abstract #0883

[18F]FDG PET/MRI Of Patients With Chronic Pain Alters Management: Early Experience.

Daehyun Yoon¹, Deepak Behera¹, Dawn Holley¹, Pamela Gallant¹, Ma Agnes Martinez Ith², Ian Carroll³, Matthew Smuck², Brian Hargreaves¹, and Sandip Biswal¹

¹Radiology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States, ²Orthopaedic Surgery, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States, ³Anesthesia, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, United States

The chronic pain sufferer is currently faced with a lack of objective tools to identify the source of their pain. Increased inflammation of the nervous system, vessels, muscles, and other tissues in chronic pain sufferers and [18F]fluorodeoxyglucose positron emission tomography/magnetic resonance imaging ([18F]FDG PET/MRI) has emerged as a sensitive clinical tool to identify increased inflammation. We plan to develop clinical [18F]FDG PET/MRI method to more accurately localize sites of hypermetabolic foci as it relates to pain generators. Early clinical results suggest that [18F]FDG PET/MRI can identify abnormalities in chronic pain patients and can immediately affect their management.

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