Clinical Utility and Future Applications of PET/CT and PET/CMR in Cardiology.
Over the past several years, there have been major advances in cardiovascular positron emission tomography (PET) in combination with either computed tomography (CT) or, more recently, cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR). These multi-modality approaches have significant potential to leverage the strengths of each modality to improve the characterization of a variety of cardiovascular diseases and to predict clinical outcomes. This review will discuss current developments and potential future uses of PET/CT and PET/CMR for cardiovascular applications, which promise to add significant incremental benefits to the data provided by each modality alone.
Departments of Medicine Cardiology Division, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA. jap6fw@virginia.edu.
Jonathan A
JA
Pan
Departments of Medicine Cardiology Division, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA. ms5pc@virginia.edu.|Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA. ms5pc@virginia.edu.|Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22903, USA. ms5pc@virginia.edu.
Michael
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Salerno
PET/CMR; PET/CT; cardiovascular magnetic resonance; computed tomography; molecular imaging; myocardial; positron emission tomography