title: PET/CT: challenge for nuclear cardiology.
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.
authors.affiliation: Nuklearmedizinische Klinik und Poliklinik, Klinikum rechts der Isar der TU München, Munich, Germany. M.Schwaiger@lrz.tu-muenchen.de
authors.forename: Markus
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schwaiger
authors.forename: Sibylle
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ziegler
authors.forename: Stephan G
authors.initials: SG
authors.lastname: Nekolla
mesh_terms: D002309:Cardiology / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D003324:Coronary Artery Disease / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007089:Image Enhancement / Q000379:methods*; D009683:Nuclear Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D010818:Practice Patterns, Physicians' / Q000639:trends; D013382:Subtraction Technique; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends