PET/CT: challenge for nuclear cardiology

Markus Schwaiger; Sibylle Ziegler; Stephan G Nekolla

PET/CT: challenge for nuclear cardiology

J Nucl Med. 2005 Oct;46(10):1664-78.

Authors

Markus Schwaiger¹, Sibylle Ziegler, Stephan G Nekolla

Affiliation

¹ Nuklearmedizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München, Munich, Germany. M.Schwaiger@lrz.tu-muenchen.de

PMID: 16204717

Abstract

This review focuses on the clinical potential of PET/CT for the characterization of coronary artery disease. We describe the technical challenges of combining instrumentation with very different imaging performances and speculate on future clinical applications in the field of cardiology.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Cardiology / methods*
Cardiology / trends
Coronary Artery Disease / diagnosis*
Humans
Image Enhancement / methods*
Nuclear Medicine / methods*
Nuclear Medicine / trends
Positron-Emission Tomography / methods*
Positron-Emission Tomography / trends
Practice Guidelines as Topic
Practice Patterns, Physicians' / trends
Subtraction Technique*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / methods*
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / trends