Targeted PET/CT imaging of vulnerable atherosclerotic plaques: Microcalcification with sodium fluoride and inflammation with fluorodeoxyglucose

Current Cardiology Reports

Volumn 15, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Chen, Wengen ^a   Dilsizian, Vasken ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Atherosclerotic plaques; Calcification; Coronary artery disease; Fluorodeoxyglucose; Inflammation; Molecular imaging; PET CT; Sodium fluoride

Indexed keywords

FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; SODIUM FLUORIDE F 18; DIAGNOSTIC AGENT; FLUORIDE SODIUM; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT;

ANGIOCARDIOGRAPHY; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR EVENT; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; CAROTID ATHEROSCLEROSIS; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMPUTER ASSISTED EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY CALCIFICATION; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; GAMMA CAMERA; HEART INFARCTION; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; MOLECULAR PROBE; NON INVASIVE PROCEDURE; SINGLE PHOTON EMISSION COMPUTER TOMOGRAPHY; CALCINOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; MALE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; PATHOLOGY; REVIEW; RUPTURE; SCINTISCANNING;

CALCINOSIS; CORONARY ANGIOGRAPHY; CORONARY ARTERY DISEASE; DISEASE PROGRESSION; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F18; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MALE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; POSITRON-EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY AND COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; RUPTURE, SPONTANEOUS; SODIUM FLUORIDE;

EID: 84876171357     PISSN: 15233782     EISSN: 15343170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11886-013-0364-4     Document Type: Article

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