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Images in cardiology
Hybrid MRI/PET of the heart: a new complementary imaging technique for simultaneous acquisition of MRI and PET data
  1. Thomas Schlosser1,
  2. Felix Nensa1,
  3. Amir A Mahabadi2,
  4. Thorsten D Poeppel3
  1. 1Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
  2. 2Department of Cardiology, West German Heart Center, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
  3. 3Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital Essen, Essen, Germany
  1. Correspondence to Dr Thomas Schlosser, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology and Neuroradiology, University Hospital Essen, Hufelandstr. 55, Essen 45122, Germany; thomas.schlosser{at}uni-due.de

https://doi.org/10.1136/heartjnl-2012-302740

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    A 55-year-old man with acute ST-segment elevating myocardial infarction and thrombotic occlusion of the left circumflex artery (LCX) had undergone percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty and coronary stenting 6 h after the onset of symptoms (figure 1). Five days later, a combined 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose (18F-FDG) magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)/positron emission tomography (PET) …

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    • Planning of the study Thomas Schlosser, Felix Nensa, Amir A Mahabadi, Thorsten D Poeppel.

    • Conduct Thomas Schlosser, Felix Nensa, Thorsten D Poeppel.

    • Reporting of the work Thomas Schlosser, Felix Nensa, Amir A Mahabadi, Thorsten D Poeppel.

    • Responsible for the overall content as guarantor Thomas Schlosser.

    • Competing interests None.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Ethics approval University of Essen.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.