Why Will PET Be the Future of Nuclear Cardiology?
In this Editorial MF Di Carli, who has a great experience in nuclear cardiology imaging in USA, explains why he predicts a central role of PET imaging in nuclear cardiology….
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Extent of Myocardial Ischemia on Positron Emission Tomography and Survival Benefit with Early Revascularization
A recent clinical study performed in 322 patients  was the first randomized comparison of the clinical effectiveness of pharmacologic stress PET with rubidium-82 or SPECT with technetium-99m in symptomatic patients…
Read moreQuantitative Tumor Perfusion Imaging with 82Rb PET/CT in Prostate Cancer: analytic and Clinical Validation
PET imaging with rubidium-82 chloride is routinely used for quantification of coronary blood flow. More generally it could be used for quantification of tumor blood flow in many cancers in…
Read moreHead-to-head Comparison of the Diagnostic Performances of Rubidium-PET and SPECT With CZT Camera for the Detection of Myocardial Ischemia in a Population of Women and Overweight Individuals
The aim of this study was to compare the diagnostic performances for the detection of myocardial ischemia using Rb-82 PET imaging and Tc-99m SPECT imaging with last generation CZT cameras…
Read moreStory of Rubidium-82 and Advantages for Myocardial Perfusion PET Imaging
Chatal JF, Rouzet F, Haddad F, Bourdeau C, Mathieu C, Le Guludec D. Story of Rubidium-82 and Advantages for Myocardial Perfusion PET Imaging. Front Med (Lausanne). 2015 Sep 11;2:65. Article…
Read morePosition paper of the Cardiovascular Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM) on PET imaging of atherosclerosis
Bucerius J, Hyafil F, Verberne HJ, Slart RH, Lindner O, Sciagra R, Agostini D, Ãœbleis C, Gimelli A, Hacker M; Cardiovascular Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)….
Read moreClinical use of quantitative cardiac perfusion PET: rationale, modalities and possible indications. Position paper of the Cardiovascular Committee of the European Association of Nuclear Medicine (EANM)
Sciagrà R, Passeri A, Bucerius J, Verberne HJ, Slart RH, Lindner O, Gimelli A, Hyafil F, Agostini D, Ãœbleis C, Hacker M; Cardiovascular Committee of the European Association of Nuclear…
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