Clinical 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).

Until recently, PET was regarded as a luxurious way of performing myocardial perfusion scintigraphy, with excellent image quality and diagnostic capabilities that hardly justified the additional cost and procedural effort. Quantitative perfusion PET was considered a major improvement over standard q...

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Published in:European Journal of Nuclear Medicine & Molecular Imaging Vol. 43; no. 8; pp. 1530 - 1546
Main Authors: Sciagrà, Roberto, Passeri, Alessandro, Bucerius, Jan, Verberne, Hein, Slart, Riemer, Lindner, Oliver, Gimelli, Alessia, Hyafil, Fabien, Agostini, Denis, Übleis, Christopher, Hacker, Marcus
Format: Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature Jul2016
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