Figure 3
Transition line graph and box-and-whisker plot of MBV at the 1st and 2nd SPECT imaging of each patient; patients who had a high MBV of 20 cm3 or more in the 1st round showed a marked decrease in the 2nd round (patients: 1, 2, 6, 8, and 11), but patients who had a low MBV of less than 2 cm3 in the 1st round, showed little change in the 2nd round (patients: 12, 14, and 15). Regarding patients 12 and 14, they showed almost less than the limit of detection because even at pre-and post-treatment, the overall MBV was significantly reduced after anti-inflammatory therapy (p = 0.01) and the mean MBV of the 1st/2nd round of SPECT was 17.43 ± 16.16 cm3/12.42 ± 10.59 cm3.
