Moving into the next era of PET myocardial perfusion imaging: introduction of novel ¹⁸F-labeled tracers.

ABSTRACT: The heart failure epidemic continues to rise with coronary artery disease as one of its main causes. Novel concepts for risk stratification to guide the referring cardiologist towards revascularization procedures are of significant value. Myocardial perfusion imaging using single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) agents has demonstrated high accuracy for the detection of clinically relevant stenoses. With positron emission tomography (PET) becoming more widely available, mainly due to its diagnostic performance in oncology, perfusion imaging with that modality is more practical than in the past and overcomes existing limitations of SPECT MPI. Advantages of PET include more reliable quantification of absolute myocardial blood flow, the routine use of computed tomography for attenu

SUBMITTER: Werner RA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6454078 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature