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Six female patients (55.3 \u00b1 10.0 years) were enrolled for assessment of symptomatic OMJ. 4\/6 patients underwent [18F]FDG-PET\/MRI and [18F]fluoride-PET\/CT, one patient MRI and [18F]fluoride-PET\/CT and another patient only [18F]FDG-PET\/MRI. Image analysis was performed by two radiologists, an oral and maxillofacial surgeon, and a nuclear medicine specialist. The extent of affected jawbone was analyzed both qualitatively and quantitatively, including the PET tracer uptake, CT-Hounsfield-Units (HU) and MRI parameters in affected and healthy jawbone. All patients had trabecular sclerosis in the affected jawbone compared to healthy jawbone (560 \u00b1 328 HU vs. 282 \u00b1 211 HU; p &gt; 0.05), while 3\/6 patients had cortical erosions. Bone marrow edema and gadolinium enhancement were documented in 5\/6 patients. In affected jawbone, [18F]fluoride-uptake was increased in all patients compared to healthy jawbone (SUVmean 15.4 \u00b1 4.2 vs. 2.1 \u00b1 0.6; p &lt; 0.05), and [18F]FDG-uptake was moderately higher (SUVmean 1.9 \u00b1 0.7 vs. 0.7 \u00b1 0.2; p &gt; 0.05). The extent of regions with increased metabolic activity was less than the extent of morphologic changes in all patients. Information on jawbone metabolism and inflammation is different from morphologic changes and therefore has the potential to provide a more accurate and objective assessment of the extent and activity of OMJ.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/jcm11143998","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,10]],"date-time":"2022-07-10T22:48:00Z","timestamp":1657493280000},"page":"3998","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["[18F]Fluoride Positron-Emission Tomography (PET) and [18F]FDG PET for Assessment of Osteomyelitis of the Jaw in Comparison to Computed Tomography (CT) and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI): A Prospective PET\/CT and PET\/MRI Pilot Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"11","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2911-3514","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Christian Philipp","family":"Reinert","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Christina","family":"Pfannenberg","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6840-5571","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Helmut","family":"Dittmann","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Brigitte","family":"G\u00fcckel","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Christian","family":"la Foug\u00e8re","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Clinical Molecular Imaging, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"},{"name":"Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) \u201cImage Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies\u201d, University of T\u00fcbingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany"},{"name":"German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-2668-7325","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Konstantin","family":"Nikolaou","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Radiology, Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, University Hospital T\u00fcbingen, Hoppe-Seyler-Str. 3, 72076 T\u00fcbingen, Germany"},{"name":"Cluster of Excellence iFIT (EXC 2180) \u201cImage Guided and Functionally Instructed Tumor Therapies\u201d, University of T\u00fcbingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany"},{"name":"German Cancer Consortium (DKTK), Partner Site Tuebingen, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Sebastian","family":"Hoefert","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, University Hospital of T\u00fcbingen, Osianderstr. 2-8, 72076 Tuebingen, Germany"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2022,7,10]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Baltensperger, M.M., and Eyrich, G.K.H. 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