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Cardiac PET Imaging
Cardiovascular disease (CVD), more commonly referred to as “heart disease,” is the number one killer in developed countries. Coronary heart disease causes approximately one of every six deaths in the ...
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Wengen Chen,
Amol M. Takalkar
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Role of FDG-PET in Evaluation of Myocardial Viability
20 October 2011
In many patients with chronic coronary artery disease, impaired left ventricular function at rest arises in part from regions of ischemic or hibernating myocardium rather than scarred myocardium. Eval...
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Olga Molchanova-Cook,
Wengen Chen
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383-391
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Clinical Application of FDG-PET Imaging for Three-Dimensional Myocardial Scar and Left Ventricular Anatomy During Ventricular Tachycardia Ablation
This review provides an overview of the role of cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) in assisting with the diagnosis of and facilitating the ablation procedure for ventricular tachycardia. It ex...
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Jing Tian,
Mark F. Smith,
Timm Dickfeld
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393-402
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Emerging Role of Fluorodeoxyglucose-PET in the Diagnosis of Cardiac Sarcoidosis
17 October 2011
Some studies have reported that cardiac sarcoidosis may be responsible for 13% to 25% deaths in patients with systemic sarcoidosis. In the United States the lifetime risk of sarcoidosis is estimated t...
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Gagandeep S. Gurm,
Alin Chirindel,
Wengen Chen
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Detection and Quantification of Molecular Calcification by PET/Computed Tomography: A New Paradigm in Assessing Atherosclerosis
Atherosclerotic plaque rupture is the leading cause of acute coronary syndrome. Molecular calcification represent as one of the early stages of plaque evolution has been hypothesized to play a potenti...
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Babak Saboury,
Pouya Ziai,
Abass Alavi
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Can Vascular Wall 18F-FDG Uptake on PET Imaging Serve as a Biomarker of Vulnerable Atherosclerotic Plaque?
24 October 2011
Vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques, which are highly inflammatory but not flow limiting, account for most cardiovascular events. Current cardiovascular imaging modalities are based on anatomic detecti...
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Wengen Chen
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Role of Global Disease Assessment by Combined PET-CT-MR Imaging in Examining Cardiovascular Disease
Atherosclerosis is considered a chronic inflammatory disease, and thereafter the degree of this pathologic process is considered to be a major determinant in plaque stability and in forecasting future...
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Babak Saboury,
Pouya Ziai,
Abass Alavi
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421-429
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Relative Merits of Single-Photon Emission Computed Tomography and PET Perfusion Imaging: A Cardiologist’s View
Evidence from the medical literature supports the use of Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) scanning to assess myocardial viability in patients with severe Left ventricular dysfunction who are...
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Abdulrahman Abdulbaki,
Kalgi Modi,
Amol M. Takalkar
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431-439
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Cardiac CT Angiography: Protocols, Applications, and Limitations
24 October 2011
Recent advances in multidetector computed tomography (CT), with submillimeter spatial resolution, improved temporal resolution, and electrocardiographic gating, make it possible to image and accuratel...
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Minh Lu,
Charles S. White
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Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging in Ischemic Heart Disease
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death in the adult population in the United States. Imaging is an essential component of the management of CAD, providing both diagnostic and prog...
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Abigail May Khan,
Harold Litt,
Victor Ferrari,
Yuchi Han
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MR Imaging of Nonischemic Cardiomyopathy
Cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging plays an important role in the distinction between ischemic and nonischemic cardiomyopathy. It does so principally by its excellent soft-tissue contrast and it...
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Saurabh Jha,
Ari Goldberg,
Mark Stellingworth
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MR Imaging of Myocardial Scar, with Electrophysiology Applications
This article reviews the increasing role of cardiac MR imaging to quantitatively assess myocardial scar in the context of clinical cardiac electrophysiology. After a quick overview of the biologic asp...
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Benoit Desjardins
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