title: [Three-dimensional assessment of myocardial blood flow and glucose metabolism using oblique-angle tomograms and polar map displays of cardiac PET images].
abstract: To evaluate clinical value of three-dimensional assessment of cardiac PET image, oblique-angle tomograms and polar map displays were reconstructed from transaxial PET images using 18F-2-fluoro-2-deoxyglucose and 13N-ammonia in 19 patients with coronary artery disease. Short-axis and vertical long-axis images enabled to evaluate extent and severity of perfusion abnormality easily in the anterior and inferior regions which were tangential in the transaxial images. Using polar map displays, perfusion/metabolism mismatch may be more easily assessed. Thus, semiquantitative analysis of ischemic and infarcted myocardium may be permitted with PET studies.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine.
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tamaki
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kawamoto
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Magata
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Okuda
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nohara
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sasayama
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Yonekura
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yamamoto
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003326:Coronary Circulation; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017202:Myocardial Ischemia / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000503:physiopathology; D009206:Myocardium / Q000378:metabolism*; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D005947:Glucose