Practical guide for interpreting and reporting cardiac PET measurements of myocardial blood flow: an Information Statement from the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology, and the Society of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging

Affiliations

¹ Saint-Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and the University of Missouri - Kansas City, 4320 Wornall Road, Suite 2000, Kansas City, MO, USA. Tbateman@saint-lukes.org.
² Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute, Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ, USA.
³ University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
⁴ OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
⁵ Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies, Kansas City, MO, USA.
⁶ Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁹ Frankel Cardiovascular Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹⁰ Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, USA.
¹¹ Clinical Associates, Reisterstown, MD, USA.
¹² Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

Review

Timothy M Bateman et al. J Nucl Cardiol. 2021 Apr.

. 2021 Apr;28(2):768-787.

doi: 10.1007/s12350-021-02552-7. Epub 2021 Mar 30.

¹ Saint-Luke's Mid America Heart Institute and the University of Missouri - Kansas City, 4320 Wornall Road, Suite 2000, Kansas City, MO, USA. Tbateman@saint-lukes.org.
² Gagnon Cardiovascular Institute, Morristown Medical Center, Morristown, NJ, USA.
³ University of Ottawa Heart Institute, Ottawa, Canada.
⁴ OhioHealth Heart and Vascular Physicians, Riverside Methodist Hospital, Columbus, OH, USA.
⁵ Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies, Kansas City, MO, USA.
⁶ Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, NY, USA.
⁷ Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁸ Cardiovascular Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
⁹ Frankel Cardiovascular Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
¹⁰ Maine Medical Center, Portland, ME, USA.
¹¹ Clinical Associates, Reisterstown, MD, USA.
¹² Cedars Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

No abstract available

Keywords: 82 rubidium; MPI; Myocardial blood flow; PET < Modalities.

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