title: Imaging the infected heart.
abstract: This Focus discusses the merits of modern imaging techniques for the management of patients with suspected or proven infection and also addresses the challenges of detecting infective endocarditis early.
authors: Radiology Department, Division of Nuclear Medicine, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, USA. Abass.Alavi@uphs.upenn.edu
authors: Abass
authors: A
authors: Alavi
authors: Babak
authors: B
authors: Saboury
authors: Sandip
authors: S
authors: Basu
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D004697:Endocarditis, Bacterial / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006321:Heart / Q000382:microbiology*; D006801:Humans; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000379:methods*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed