Angiographic severity of coronary artery stenosis has historically been the primary guide to
revascularization or medical management of coronary artery disease. However, physiologic …

PET/CT with 18 F-FDG is increasingly being used for staging, restaging, and treatment
monitoring for cancer patients. CT is still frequently used only for attenuation correction and …

Positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging in concert with tracer-
kinetic modeling affords the assessment of regional myocardial blood flow (MBF) of the left …

Patients with coronary artery disease (CAD) and severe left ventricular (LV) dysfunction
have a high but variable annual mortality and some may benefit from myocardial …

BACKGROUND Aging is associated with changes of the systolic blood pressure that may
increase cardiac work and myocardial blood flow at rest and reduce the myocardial flow …

Background Studies of patients with coronary artery disease and left ventricular dysfunction
have shown that preoperative quantification of myocardial viability may be clinically useful to …

Stress-induced myocardial perfusion defects have been firmly established as an important
diagnostic and prognostic technique for identifying flow-limiting epicardial coronary artery …

We have characterized N-13 ammonia as a myocardial blood flow imaging agent suitable
for positron-emission computed tomography. However, themechanisms of uptake and …

Background Coronary arteriography is considered the “gold standard” for evaluating the
severity of a coronary stenosis. Because the resistance to blood flow through a stenotic …

This is a text on cerebral and myocardial imaging using positron emission tomography and
autoradiography. Contributors in nuclear medicine and biophysics define the central …