First, let's get a bit of the jargon down. The playing surface in curling is called the sheet. Sheet dimensions can vary, but they're usually around 150 feet long by about 15 feet wide. The sheet is covered with tiny droplets of water that become ice and cause the stones to curl, or deviate from a straight path.
RE: FDG Uptake Explanation - PET SCAN. uptake is the amount of radioactive sugar that the cells are using for metabolism. It is possible to have a positive area on PET that is not cancer. Thats why its important to compare one scan to the next to see if there are changes.
Hypermetabolic means those cells are metabolising more sugar than is normal for that type of cell. This is important in terms of cancer diagnostic because cancer cells have a much higher metabolic rate than healthy cells, thus they light up the PET scan.Understanding uptake will help, also. have gotten a copy of my PET report and it says that I have 2 nodes, in chest area where my breast cancer was located, that are hypermetabolic with an SUV of 5-8, also a right ovarian cyst with physiologic uptake. This PET scan was done prior to chemo and radiation.