A 49-year-old African American female with lymph node biopsy-proven pulmonary sarcoidosis complicated by skin and eye involvement presented with dyspnea on exertion. The patient was in her usual state of health until 2 years prior to presentation …
18 F-FDG PET is a well-established functional imaging technique for diagnostic oncological imaging for a variety of malignancies and their systemic involvement. We present a 60-year-old man with retroperitoneal liposarcoma who underwent 18 F-FDG …
A 74-year-old female patient with exertional dyspnea and typical stable angina was referred for non-invasive stress testing with rubidium-82-PET. The patient had history of biological aortic valve replacement. In addition, the patient underwent a …
Flurpiridaz F 18 (Flurpiridaz), formerly BMS747158, is a novel 18 F-labeled PET myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) tracer that is a structural analog of pyridaben and binds to mitochondrial complex 1 (MC-1) with high affinity 1 (Figure 1 ). As …
Practitioners of nuclear cardiology become familiar with their equipment. This is true for conventional SPECT systems as well as high-sensitivity systems with unique detectors and collimation. This editorial is prompted by an article by Oddstig et …
PET myocardial perfusion imaging has demonstrated increased accuracy for the detection of coronary artery disease (CAD) compared to other non-invasive imaging modalities. Recent data have also shown that quantification of perfusion as myocardial …
Blood pool ventriculography with multigated acquisition (MUGA) allows accurate and reproducible measurements of the left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF). 1 Because of its accuracy and reproducibility, MUGA can be used to assess LVEF prior to …
