Positron-Emission Tomography Quantitative Measurements of Myocardial Blood Flow: Just the Facts…

Henry Gewirtz; Ami E Iskandrian; Charity Morgan; Heinrich R Schelbert

doi:10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.03.035

Positron-Emission Tomography Quantitative Measurements of Myocardial Blood Flow: Just the Facts…

JACC Cardiovasc Imaging. 2019 Sep;12(9):1864-1867. doi: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.03.035.

Authors

Henry Gewirtz¹, Ami E Iskandrian², Charity Morgan³, Heinrich R Schelbert⁴

Affiliations

¹ Cardiology Division, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. Electronic address: gewirtz.henry@mgh.harvard.edu.
² Cardiovascular Diseases, Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine, Birmingham, Alabama.
³ Department of Biostatistics, University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Public Health, Birmingham, Alabama.
⁴ Nuclear Medicine, Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology; David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California.

PMID: 31488254
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcmg.2019.03.035

No abstract available

Keywords: coronary artery disease; coronary microvascular disease; myocardial blood flow and flow reserve; positron-emission tomography; prognosis; relative flow reserve.

Publication types

Editorial

MeSH terms

Coronary Circulation*
Fractional Flow Reserve, Myocardial
Heart Diseases / diagnostic imaging*
Heart Diseases / physiopathology
Heart Diseases / therapy
Humans
Myocardial Perfusion Imaging*
Positron-Emission Tomography*
Predictive Value of Tests
Prognosis
Reproducibility of Results