Representative whole-body PET/CT based organ and tissue segmentation before and 12 months after bariatric surgery in a 20-year-old woman. (IMAGE)

Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Representative whole-body PET/CT based organ and tissue segmentation before and 12 months after bariatric surgery in a 20-year-old woman.

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Figure 1. Representative whole-body PET/CT based organ and tissue segmentation before and 12 months after bariatric surgery in a 20-year-old woman. Coronal PET/CT images and automated segmentation maps show multi-organ structural remodeling, including reductions in subcutaneous adipose tissue, visceral adipose tissue, liver, pancreas, spleen, and skeletal muscle, with apparent enlargement of the colon at 12-month follow-up.

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