State of the Art in Cardiac Hybrid Technology: PET/MR

Current Cardiovascular Imaging Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 338-345

  Nappi, Carmela ^a,b,c,d   El Fakhri, Georges ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^d IRCCS SDN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular disease; Coronary artery disease; Hybrid PET MRI; Ischemia; PET MRI

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA N 13; COPPER 64; DEXTRAN; FLUORODEOXYGLUCOSE F 18; FLURPIRIDAZ F 18; GADOLINIUM PENTETATE; RUBIDIUM 82; WATER O 15;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; CARDIAC IMAGING; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FRAMINGHAM RISK SCORE; HEART INFARCTION; HEART MOVEMENT; HEART MUSCLE BLOOD FLOW; HUMAN; LEFT ANTERIOR DESCENDING CORONARY ARTERY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); TAKOTSUBO CARDIOMYOPATHY;

EID: 84879948869     PISSN: 19419066     EISSN: 19419074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12410-013-9213-5     Document Type: Review

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