title: Cardiac Assessment with PET.
abstract: Positron emission tomography (PET) has been very well validated for assessing myocardial viability, and emerging sophisticated hybrid imaging technologies involving PET with other imaging modalities offer tremendous promise for delivering an in-depth but noninvasive evaluation of cardiac perfusion and function in various pathologic conditions during a single imaging session. Moreover, several new PET radiotracers in the research and preclinical arena are poised to enter the clinical setting in the foreseeable future. With such exciting developments on the horizon, cardiac PET and PET/computed tomography imaging, and potentially integrated cardiac PET/magnetic resonance imaging have become the focus of the molecular imaging paradigm for comprehensive cardiovascular assessment.
authors.affiliation: PET Imaging Center, Biomedical Research Foundation of Northwest Louisiana, 1505 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA; Department of Radiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport (LSUHSC-S), 1505 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA.
authors.forename: Amol
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Takalkar
authors.affiliation: Department of Nuclear Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA.
authors.forename: Anshul
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Agarwal
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport (LSUHSC-S), 1505 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71103, USA.
authors.forename: Scott
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Adams
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: Abass
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Alavi
authors.affiliation: Department of Radiology, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA.
authors.forename: Drew A
authors.initials: DA
authors.lastname: Torigian