INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Measurement of blood flow to the myocardium represents a quantum leap forward for the field of nuclear cardiology. Quantification of myocardial blood flow as a routine…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Cardiac PET myocardial perfusion imaging has gained considerable acceptance in the clinical world of Nuclear Cardiology for many reasons. One driving force has been the substantial…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The use of radionuclides for the assessment of cardiovascular disease is well-established as a very low-risk, high-sensitivity, and specificity technology for establishing the presence of coronary…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The field of cardiovascular PET imaging is constantly evolving, and this includes all aspects of tracers, production of tracers, and delivery to the patient. This chapter…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen The introduction of routine absolute myocardial blood flow assessments for cardiac PET adds unique information that is difficult, if not impossible, to acquire using other noninvasive…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Cardiac positron emission tomographic (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging offers patients and referring health-care providers a superior product with high diagnostic accuracy and risk stratification. As with…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Stress/rest myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) is commonly used for the diagnostic assessment of patients with suspected coronary artery disease (CAD) and for aiding clinical management decisions,…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen An important evolutionary advancement in the field of nuclear cardiology has been the introduction of cardiovascular positron emission tomography (PET) into mainstream clinical care. An extensive…
INTRODUCTION Print Section Listen Pulmonary embolism (PE) results in at least 630,000 symptomatic episodes in the United States yearly, making it about half as common as acute myocardial infarction, and…
