Molecular Imaging of Infective Endocarditis With 6''-[18F]Fluoromaltotriose Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography

Molecular Imaging of Infective Endocarditis With 6''-[¹⁸F]Fluoromaltotriose Positron Emission Tomography-Computed Tomography

Circulation. 2020 May 26;141(21):1729-1731. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.119.043924. Epub 2020 May 26.

Mirwais Wardak^{1

2}, Gayatri Gowrishankar¹, Xin Zhao^#², Yonggang Liu^#², Edwin Chang¹, Mohammad Namavari¹, Tom Haywood¹, Moustafa T Gabr¹, Evgenios Neofytou², Tony Chour², Xulei Qin², José G Vilches-Moure³, Jonathan Hardy⁴, Christopher H Contag⁴, Michael V McConnell^{5

6}, Joseph C Wu^{1

5

2}, Sanjiv Sam Gambhir^{1

2

7}

¹ Department of Radiology, Molecular Imaging Program at Stanford (MIPS), Bio-X Program (M.W., G.G., E.C., M.N., T.H., M.T.G., J.C.W., S.S.G.), Stanford University School of Medicine, CA.
² Stanford Cardiovascular Institute (M.W., X.Z., Y.L., E.N., T.C., X.Q., M.V.M., J.C.W., S.S.G.), Stanford University School of Medicine, CA.
³ Department of Comparative Medicine (J.G.V.-M.), Stanford University School of Medicine, CA.
⁴ Institute for Quantitative Health Science & Engineering, Michigan State University, East Lansing (J.H., C.H.C.).
⁵ Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiovascular Medicine (M.V.M., J.C.W.), Stanford University School of Medicine, CA.
⁶ Verily Life Sciences, San Francisco, CA (M.V.M.).
⁷ Department of Bioengineering and Department of Materials Science & Engineering (S.S.G.), Stanford University, CA.

^# Contributed equally.

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Keywords: PET-CT; aortic valve; bacterial infection; infective endocarditis; staphylococcus aureus.