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Cardiac positron emission tomography (PET)

Nikant Sabharwal, Chee Yee Loong, Andrew Kelion

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Introduction to cardiac positron emission tomography (PET) 212 PET instrumentation (1) 214 PET instrumentation (2) 216 Radiopharmaceuticals for cardiac PET (1) 218 Radiopharmaceuticals for cardiac PET (2) 220 Interpretation and clinical significance of cardiac PET studies 222 As in single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT), positron emission tomography (PET) involves the injection of a radiopharmaceutical, the physiological properties of which determine its distribution within the patient. The labelling radionuclide then allows this distribution to be imaged. In contrast to SPECT, the positron-emitting radionuclides used in PET produce pairs of high energy 511keV ...

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Key concepts: Positron emission tomography, Cardiac PET, Nuclear medicine, Positron, Brain positron emission tomography, Pet imaging, Positron emission, Medicine