title: [The integration of positron emission tomography into noninvasive cardiovascular diagnosis].
abstract: Cardiac positron emission tomography is a noninvasive imaging modality that can be used to assess regional myocardial blood flow and metabolism. This combined noninvasive approach to the evaluation of acute or chronic injury to the myocardium is superior to all other imaging modalities. With increasingly widespread use of positron emission tomography it is becoming evident that patients with impaired left ventricular ejection fraction (less than or equal to 35%) resulting from congestive heart failure and patients soon (72-96 h) after acute myocardial infarction in particular may benefit from definition of metabolically active myocardium to stratify therapeutic assessment.
authors.affiliation: Division of Nuclear Medicine and Biophysics, UCLA School of Medicine.
authors.forename: E U
authors.initials: EU
authors.lastname: Nitzsche
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Müller
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Czernin
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Moser
authors.forename: H R
authors.initials: HR
authors.lastname: Schelbert
mesh_terms: D000641:Ammonia; D003326:Coronary Circulation / Q000502:physiology*; D003327:Coronary Disease / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D003847:Deoxyglucose / Q000031:analogs & derivatives; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D006801:Humans; D009590:Nitrogen Radioisotopes; D015635:Radionuclide Ventriculography; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D009590:Nitrogen Radioisotopes; D019788:Fluorodeoxyglucose F18; D000641:Ammonia; D003847:Deoxyglucose
vernacular_title: Die Integration der Positronenemissionstomographie in die nichtinvasive kardiovaskuläre Diagnostik.