Clinical PET Myocardial Perfusion Imaging and Flow Quantification.
Cardiol Clin
; 34(1): 69-85, 2016 Feb.
Article
in En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-26590781
ABSTRACT
Cardiac PET imaging is a powerful tool for the assessment of coronary artery disease. Many tracers with different advantages and disadvantages are available. It has several advantages over single photon emission computed tomography, including superior accuracy and lower radiation exposure. It provides powerful prognostic information, which can help to stratify patients and guide clinicians. The addition of flow quantification enables better detection of multivessel disease while providing incremental prognostic information. Flow quantification provides important physiologic information, which may be useful to individualize patient therapy. This approach is being applied in some centers, but requires standardization before it is more widely applied.
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01-internacional
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MEDLINE
Main subject:
Coronary Artery Disease
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Positron-Emission Tomography
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Myocardial Perfusion Imaging
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Multimodal Imaging
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
Limits:
Humans
Language:
En
Journal:
Cardiol Clin
Year:
2016
Document type:
Article
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