A Comparative ⁶⁸Ga-Citrate and ⁶⁸Ga-Chloride PET/CT Imaging of Staphylococcus aureus Osteomyelitis in the Rat Tibia

Table 1

Ex vivo analysis of tracer accumulation reported as SUV.

	^68Ga-citrate		^68Ga-chloride [10]
	Osteomyelitis	Bone healing	Osteomyelitis	Bone healing
Blood	1.0 ± 0.12	0.85 ± 0.41	1.4 ± 0.17	1.2 ± 0.15
Muscle, operated side	0.14 ± 0.054	0.12 ± 0.055	0.075 ± 0.032	0.055 ± 0.039
Muscle, control side	0.14 ± 0.081	0.13 ± 0.087	0.10 ± 0.057	0.071 ± 0.033
Bone, operated side	0.70 ± 0.13	0.19 ± 0.093	0.48 ± 0.19	0.28 ± 0.10
Bone, intact control	0.42 ± 0.081	0.18 ± 0.088	0.24 ± 0.044	0.31 ± 0.11
Operated bone-to-muscle	7.0 ± 4.9	1.7 ± 0.67	6.7 ± 1.2	5.6 ± 1.8
Operated bone-to-blood	0.70 ± 0.13	0.23 ± 0.033	0.36 ± 0.055	0.25 ± 0.074
Operated bone-to-intact bone	1.7 ± 0.21	1.1 ± 0.13	1.9 ± 0.56	0.92 ± 0.21