FDG-PET can quantitatively measure plaque inflammation, a method used in pharmaceutical research but not routine clinical practice.

“the amount of you can measure using ftg pet you can measure the amount of inflammation in a plaque that can be done quantitatively there's a group of people who've been doing that for years and I think certain pharmaceutical and biotech companies have used that as a way to kind of gauge efficacy in evaluating new molecules to see if they if they can have an impact there uh that I don't think has been being used now clinically at least to my knowledge and routinely”