title: Molecular cardiovascular imaging using scintigraphic methods.
abstract: Molecular cardiovascular imaging plays an increasingly important role both in basic research and in clinical diagnosis. Scintigraphic methods have long been used to study pathophysiological changes on a cellular and molecular level, and they are likely to remain important molecular imaging modalities in the foreseeable future. This article provides an overview over current developments in cardiovascular molecular imaging using scintigraphic methods. The focus lies on imaging of cardiac innervation, plaque instability, hypoxia and angiogenesis, gene expression and stem and progenitor cell migration and proliferation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, University Hospital of Münster, Albert-Schweitzer-Str. 33, 48149 Münster, Germany. stegger@uni-muenster.de
authors.forename: Lars
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stegger
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schäfers
authors.forename: Klaus
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kopka
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wagner
authors.forename: Sven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hermann
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Kies
authors.forename: Marilyn
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Law
authors.forename: Otmar
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Schober
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Schäfers
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001341:Autonomic Nervous System / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling / Q000379:methods; D006321:Heart / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000294:innervation*; D006801:Humans; D008967:Molecular Biology; D015336:Molecular Probe Techniques; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D014055:Tomography, Emission-Computed; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals