title: Technical Aspects of Cardiac PET Imaging and Recent Advances.
abstract: As the number of myocardial perfusion single emission photon computed tomography studies performed in the United States has steadily declined over the past several years, an opposite trend can be seen for myocardial perfusion PET. This review covers basic technical aspects of cardiac PET imaging and recent advances that maximize the quality and efficiency of cardiac PET. The covered topics include radioisotopes used in cardiac PET and basics of acquisition and reconstruction, including time-of-flight techniques, PET detectors, attenuation correction, and respiratory gating techniques.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Imaging and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA. Electronic address: guido.germano@cshs.org.
authors.forename: Guido
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Germano
authors.affiliation: Departments of Imaging and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Berman
authors.affiliation: Departments of Imaging and Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, 8700 Beverly Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
authors.forename: Piotr
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Slomka
mesh_terms: D057791:Cardiac Imaging Techniques / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D021621:Imaging, Three-Dimensional / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D064847:Multimodal Imaging / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D049268:Positron-Emission Tomography / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals; D015899:Tomography, Emission-Computed, Single-Photon / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000295:instrumentation / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D019275:Radiopharmaceuticals
keywords: Attenuation correction; Myocardial perfusion PET; PET; PET detectors; PET reconstruction; Respiratory gating; Time-of-flight