Cardiac SPECT or PET?: Is there still a debate?

Manuel D. Cerqueira

Cardiovascular disease in the literature: A selection of recent original research papers

Fadi G. Hage, Wael AlJaroudi

Nuclear cardiology in the literature: a selection of recent, original research papers

Richard L. Weinberg, Saurabh Malhotra

What is this image? 2022 image 6 result

Awais Malik, Korosh Sharain, Thomas Foley, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee

What is This Image? 2022: Image 1

What happened to ASNC’s founding members? The 2021 survey

Frans J. Th Wackers

Who were the Founding Members of ASNC?

Frans J. Th. Wackers

Left ventricular ejection fraction, myocardial blood flow and hemodynamic variables in adenosine and regadenoson vasodilator 82-Rubidium PET

Simon M. Frey, Ursina Honegger, Olivier F. Clerc, Federico Caobelli, Philip Haaf, Michael J. Zellweger

Optimizing diagnosis and risk stratification of ischemic heart disease by myocardial perfusion imaging: The incremental values of non-perfusion variables during vasodilator stress

Guang-Uei Hung

Feasibility of exercise treadmill 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography myocardial perfusion imaging using an off-site cyclotron

Daniel R. Harland, Patrycja Z. Galazka, Jerry Rasmussen, Debra Mahlum, Janelle Falk, Steven C. Port

The imperative to assess physical function among all patients undergoing stress myocardial perfusion imaging

Alan Rozanski, Daniel S. Berman, Ami E. Iskandrian

Reproducibility of global LV function and dyssynchrony parameters derived from phase analysis of gated myocardial perfusion SPECT: A multicenter comparison with core laboratory setting

Fernando de Amorim Fernandes, Amalia Peix, Raffaele Giubbini, Ganesan Karthikeyan, Teresa Massardo, Chetan Patel, Luz M. Pabon, Amelia Jimenez-Heffernan, Erick Alexanderson, Sadaf Butt, Alka Kumar, Victor Marin, Olga Morozova, Diana Paez, Claudio T. Mesquita, Ernest V. Garcia

Mechanical Dyssynchrony with Gated Myocardial Perfusion SPECT: Reproducibility is the Key

Aaron Vigdor, Paco E. Bravo

Prognostic value of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony induced by exercise stress in patients with normal myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography

Tomohiko Sakatani, Takeru Kasahara, Daisuke Irie, Yoshinori Tsubakimoto, Akiko Matsuo, Hiroshi Fujita, Keiji Inoue

Gated SPECT beyond myocardial perfusion: assessment of mechanical left ventricular synchrony

Erick Alexánderson-Rosas, Salvador Hernández-Sandoval

Prognostic value of absent left ventricular ejection fraction reserve with regadenoson SPECT MPI

Phillip Smith, Ayman Farag, Pradeep Bhambhvani, Ami Iskandrian, Fadi G. Hage

Absolute Resting 13N-Ammonia PET Myocardial Blood Flow for Predicting Myocardial Viability and Recovery of Ventricular Function after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting

Jiao Wang, Jian-ming Li, Shuai Li, Bailing Hsu

Evolving use of PET viability imaging

Juliana Brenande de Oliveira Brito, Robert A. deKemp, Terrence D. Ruddy

Assessment of left and right ventricular functional parameters using dynamic dual-tracer [13N]NH3 and [18F]FDG PET/MRI

Sazan Rasul, Dietrich Beitzke, Tim Wollenweber, Ivo Rausch, Martin Lyngby Lassen, Marie Elisabeth Stelzmüller, Markus Mitterhauser, Verena Pichler, Thomas Beyer, Christian Loewe, Marcus Hacker

First-pass cardiac PET: Potentiality and limitations

Luca Camoni, Elisabetta Cerudelli

Prognostic significance of incidental suspected transthyretin amyloidosis on routine bone scintigraphy

Olli Suomalainen, Jaagup Pilv, Antti Loimaala, Sorjo Mätzke, Tiina Heliö, Valtteri Uusitalo

Incidental detection of ATTR cardiac amyloidosis

Jessica A. Quaggin-Smith, Ramsey M. Wehbe, Thomas A. Holly

Spectrum of radionuclide perfusion study abnormalities in takotsubo cardiomyopathy

Jeffrey L. Anderson, Benjamin D. Horne, Viet T. Le, Tami L. Bair, David B. Min, C. Michael Minder, Ritesh Dhar, Steve Mason, Joseph B. Muhlestein, Kirk U. Knowlton

Takotsubo cardiomyopathy: What should myocardial perfusion imaging reveal

Kazuya Takehana

The diagnostic value of SPECT CZT quantitative myocardial blood flow in high-risk patients

Konstantin V. Zavadovsky, Andrew V. Mochula, Alina N. Maltseva, Alla A. Boshchenko, Andrew E. Baev, Sergey L. Andreev, Evgeniy A. Nesterov, Riccardo Liga, Alessia Gimelli

Simultaneous assessment of microcalcifications and morphological criteria of vulnerability in carotid artery plaque using hybrid 18F-NaF PET/MRI

Laura Mechtouff, Monica Sigovan, Philippe Douek, Nicolas Costes, Didier Le Bars, Adeline Mansuy, Julie Haesebaert, Alexandre Bani-Sadr, Jérémie Tordo, Patrick Feugier, Antoine Millon, Stéphane Luong, Salim Si-Mohamed, Diane Collet-Benzaquen, Emmanuelle Canet-Soulas, Thomas Bochaton, Claire Crola Da Silva, Alexandre Paccalet, David Magne, Yves Berthezene, Norbert Nighoghossian

CME INSTRUCTIONS: Cardiac imaging for the assessment of patients being evaluated for liver transplantation

Cardiac imaging for the assessment of patients being evaluated for liver transplantation

Kameel Kassab, Rami Doukky

Role of multimodality imaging in a patient with posterior left ventricular aneurysm and non-compaction: Review of the literature.

Óscar Ulises Preciado-Gutiérrez, Cinthia Lissete Patiño-Bernal, Rafael Paz-Gómez, Karen Patricia Hernández-Romero, Guillermo Zavala-Ramírez, Humberto Castro Villacorta, Agustín Ramiro Urzúa-González, Héctor Barajas-Martínez, Andrés Preciado-Anaya

Outcomes of patients with moderate-to-severe Ischemia excluded from the ischemia trial

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Faisal Nabi, Su Min Chang, Neal S. Kleiman, Mohammed A. Chamsi-Pasha, Alpesh Shah, Yuishi Han, William A. Zoghbi, John J. Mahmarian

Is your ischemic patient an ISCHEMIA patient?

Sean R. McMahon, W. Lane Duvall

Reasons for discordance between positron emission tomography (PET) myocardial perfusion imaging (MPI) results and subsequent management

Merrill Thomas, John A. Spertus, Kevin F. Kennedy, Randall C. Thompson, Paul S. Chan, Timothy M. Bateman, Krishna K. Patel

Whatever you do: Do it cautiously and consider the consequences!

Michael J. Zellweger

Effect of PET-CT misalignment on the quantitative accuracy of cardiac 15O-water PET

Jonny Nordström, Hendrik J. Harms, Tanja Kero, Maryam Ebrahimi, Jens Sörensen, Mark Lubberink

Cardiac 15O-water PET: Does mismatched attenuation correction not matter?

Benjamin C. Lee

Comparison of 18F-sodium fluoride positron emission tomography imaging and 99mTc-pyrophosphate in cardiac amyloidosis

Li Xin Zhang, Patrick Martineau, Vincent Finnerty, Geneviève Giraldeau, Marie-Claude Parent, François Harel, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau

Non-traditional factors affecting referral for coronary angiography following SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging

Shreyas Gowdar, Nasir Hussain, Alan W. Ahlberg, Mohammad Elsadany, Guru N. Kowlgi, David Silverman, W. Lane Duvall

Getting the right patient to angiography: Can we level the playing field?

P. S. Jayadeva, N. Better

Incidental cardiac findings on somatostatin receptor PET/CT: What do they indicate and are they of clinical relevance?

Emanuele Bobbio, Anna Dudás, Anders Bergström, Daniela Esposito, Oskar Angerås, Amar Taha, Martijn van Essen, Marie Björkenstam, Kristjan Karason, Entela Bollano, Niklas Bergh, Christian L. Polte

Clinical and gated SPECT MPI parameters associated with super-response to cardiac resynchronization therapy

Claudio T. Mesquita, Amalia Peix, Fernando de Amorim Fernandes, Raffaele Giubbini, Ganesan Karthikeyan, Teresa Massardo, Chetan Patel, Luz M. Pabon, Amelia Jimenez-Heffernan, Erick Alexanderson, Sadaf Butt, Alka Kumar, Victor Marin, Olga Morozova, Diana Paez, Ernest V. Garcia

Mechanical dyssynchrony and super-response to CRT

K. A. Jones, N. E. R. Goodfield

Automated abstraction of myocardial perfusion imaging reports using natural language processing

Chengyi Zheng, Benjamin C. Sun, Yi-Lin Wu, Maros Ferencik, Ming-Sum Lee, Rita F. Redberg, Aniket A. Kawatkar, Visanee V. Musigdilok, Adam L. Sharp

Automated abstraction of myocardial perfusion imaging reports using natural language processing

Parija Sharedalal, Ajay Singh, Neal Shah, Diwakar Jain

Diagnostic value of FDG PET/CT imaging in patients with surgically managed infective endocarditis: results of a retrospective analysis at a tertiary center

Sabine Julia Maria Sag, Karin Menhart, Jirka Grosse, Florian Hitzenbichler, Frank Hanses, Arno Mohr, Bernd Salzberger, Matthäus Zerdzitzki, Michael Hilker, Leopold Rupprecht, Dirk Hellwig, Christof Schmid, Lars Siegfried Maier, Can Martin Sag

Splenic switch-off as a novel marker for adenosine response in nitrogen-13 ammonia PET myocardial perfusion imaging: Cross-validation against CMR using a hybrid PET/MR device

Adam Bakula, Dimitri Patriki, Elia von Felten, Georgios Benetos, Aleksandra Sustar, Dominik C. Benz, Muriel Wiedemann-Buser, Valerie Treyer, Aju P. Pazhenkottil, Christoph Gräni, Catherine Gebhard, Philipp A. Kaufmann, Ronny R. Buechel, Tobias A. Fuchs

Assessment of stress adequacy with adenosine: Does the answer lie in the spleen?

William E. Moody, Parthiban Arumugam

Prognostic value of early left ventricular ejection fraction reserve during regadenoson stress solid-state SPECT-MPI

Yuka Otaki, Mathews B. Fish, Robert J. H. Miller, Mark Lemley, Piotr J. Slomka

Is there room in the MPI toolbox for another prognostic indicator?

Arnold F. Jacobson

Cardiopulmonary transit time: A novel PET imaging biomarker of in vivo physiology for risk stratification of heart transplant recipients

H. J. Harms, P. E. Bravo, N. S. Bajaj, W. Zhou, A. Gupta, T. Tran, V. R. Taqueti, J. Hainer, C. Bibbo, S. Dorbala, R. Blankstein, M. Mehra, J. Sörensen, M. M. Givertz, M. F. Di Carli

Cardiopulmonary transit time: Reinforcing the case for positron emission tomography after heart transplantation

Mahesh K. Vidula, Senthil Selvaraj, Marie A. Guerraty

Comparison of left ventricle mechanical dyssynchrony parameters in ischemic and non-ischemic patients using 13N-NH3 PET/CT

Angelica Mazzoletti, Domenico Albano, Francesco Bertagna, Claudio Tinoco Mesquita, Raffaele Giubbini

Evaluation of dyssynchrony with nuclear cardiac imaging: New evidence for an old parameter

Riccardo Liga, Alessia Gimelli

Abnormal vasodilator stress electrocardiogram with normal myocardial perfusion: Clinical decision-making and review of literature

Kameel Kassab, Ahmed Al-Ogaili, Saurabh Malhotra

Divergence of acetate uptake in proinflammatory and inflammation-resolving macrophages: implications for imaging atherosclerosis

Selim Demirdelen, Philip Z. Mannes, Ali Mubin Aral, Joseph Haddad, Steven A. Leers, Delphine Gomez, Sina Tavakoli

Use of 11C-acetate PET imaging in the evaluation of advanced atherogenic lesions

Victoria Fernández-García, Lisardo Boscá

Assessment of myocardial sympathetic innervation with 18F-FDOPA-PET/CT in patients with autonomic dysfunction: feasibility study in IPD patients

Harish Goyal, Anshul Sharma, Chetan Patel, K. K. Deepak, Madhavi Tripathi, Priyanka Gupta, Rajeev Kumar, Chandra Shekhar Bal, Vinay Goyal

Assessment of myocardial sympathetic innervation with 18F-FDOPA-PET/CT in patients with autonomic dysfunction: Feasibility study in IPD patients

Pamela K. Woodard

Role of 18F-FDG PET/CT imaging in cardiac and pericardial masses

Hongyan Yin, Wujian Mao, Hui Tan, Na Zhu, Quan Wan, Jing Shi, Lin Qiu, Yan Xiu, Rongkui Luo, Haojun Yu, Hongcheng Shi

Simultaneous measurements of myocardial glucose metabolism and extracellular volumes with hybrid PET/MRI using concurrent injections of Gd-DTPA and [18F]FDG

H. Smailovic, B. Wilk, G. Wisenberg, J. Sykes, J. Butler, J. Hicks, J. D. Thiessen, F. S. Prato

Tracking the progress of inflammation with PET/MRI in a canine model of myocardial infarction

B. Wilk, H. Smailovic, G. Wisenberg, J. Sykes, J. Butler, M. Kovacs, J. D. Thiessen, F. S. Prato

Assessment of myocardial inflammation post-infarct with PET/MRI: Getting into the nitty-gritty

Daniel Juneau, Matthieu Pelletier-Galarneau

Evaluation of non-stenotic carotid atherosclerotic plaques with combined FDG-PET imaging and CT angiography in patients with ischemic stroke of unknown origin

Nidaa Mikail, Elena Meseguer, Philippa Lavallée, Isabelle Klein, Cristina Hobeanu, Céline Guidoux, Lucie Cabrejo, Guy Lesèche, Pierre Amarenco, Fabien Hyafil

FDG-PET in ischemic strokes of unknown origin: Have we found the needle in the haystack?

Meron Teklu, Nehal N. Mehta

Diagnostic performance of prone-only myocardial perfusion imaging versus coronary angiography in the detection of coronary artery disease: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Seyed Ali Mirshahvalad, Mohammadreza Chavoshi, Sepideh Hekmat

Prone-only SPECT myocardial perfusion imaging: An alternative standard in clinical practice?

Valeria Cantoni, Roberta Green, Alberto Cuocolo

Health economics-based verification of functional myocardial ischemia evaluation of stable coronary artery disease in Japan: A long-term longitudinal study using propensity score matching

Tomoyuki Takura, Hiroyoshi Yokoi, Nobuhiro Tanaka, Naoya Matsumoto, Eri Yoshida, Tomoaki Nakata

Is cost-effectiveness the “tie-breaker” when deciding between anatomic and functional evaluation in stable ischemic heart disease?

Katherine Riedy, Lawrence Phillips

Quantifying microcalcification activity in the thoracic aorta

Alexander J. Fletcher, Maria Lembo, Jacek Kwiecinski, Maaz B. J. Syed, Jennifer Nash, Evangelos Tzolos, Rong Bing, Sebastien Cadet, Gillian MacNaught, Edwin J. R. van Beek, Alistair J. Moss, Mhairi K. Doris, Niki L. Walker, Damini Dey, Philip D. Adamson, David E. Newby, Piotr J. Slomka, Marc R. Dweck

A vessel of progress: Aortic microcalcification activity for the quantification of 18F-NaF uptake in the thoracic aorta

Michael T. Osborne, Taimur A. Abbasi, Hadil Zureigat, Ahmed Tawakol

Performance of cardiac PET/CT with and without phase analysis for detection of scar in cardiac sarcoidosis: Comparison to cardiac magnetic resonance imaging

Mohamed Y. Elwazir, Jared G. Bird, Omar F. AbouEzzeddine, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Lori A. Blauwet, Jeremy D. Collins, Raymond J. Gibbons, Martin Rodriguez-Porcel, Hanan M. Kamal, Ahmed T. Abdellah, John P. Bois

Added value gated PET with phase analysis for the detection of scar burden and prognostication in cardiac sarcoidosis?

Thomas H. Schindler, Adeel Haq, Sudhir Jain

Visceral adipose tissue phenotype and hypoadiponectinemia are associated with aortic Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose uptake in patients with familial dyslipidemias

Konstantinos Toutouzas, Alexios S. Antonopoulos, Iosif Koutagiar, Ioannis Skoumas, Georgios Benetos, Pavlos Kafouris, Antigoni Miliou, Aikaterini Petrocheilou, Alexandros Georgakopoulos, Georgios Oikonomou, Maria Drakopoulou, Ilias Siores, Christos Pitsavos, Charalambos Antoniades, Constantinos D. Anagnostopoulos, Dimitris Tousoulis

Fluorine-18 fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT is a suitable instrument to show the effects of lipid metabolism disorders on metabolic networks in the living organism

Oana C. Kulterer, Marcus Hacker

Preclinical and clinical evaluation of a new method to assess cardiac insulin resistance using nuclear imaging

Pascale Perret, Lotfi Slimani, Gilles Barone-Rochette, Julien Vollaire, Arnaud Briat, Mitra Ahmadi, Marion Henri, Marie-Dominique Desruet, Romain Clerc, Alexis Broisat, Laurent Riou, François Boucher, Frédérique Frouin, Loïc Djaileb, Alex Calizzano, Gérald Vanzetto, Daniel Fagret, Catherine Ghezzi

New approach for cardiac insulin resistance assessment using nuclear imaging: Moving research closer to practice

Kuan-Yin Ko, Yen-Wen Wu

99mTc-PYP scintigraphic diagnosis of cardiac amyloidosis in a patient with new onset heart failure

Antoine El Khoury, Samer Nasr, Feras Chehade

Multimodality imaging approach to Fabry cardiomyopathy: Any role for nuclear cardiology?

Wanda Acampa, Adriana D’Antonio, Massimo Imbriaco, Antonio Pisani, Alberto Cuocolo

The complementary roles of MPS and CAC in renal patients

Joseph C. Lee, Richard A. Baer

Dobutamine stress PET/CT for assessment of hemodynamic significance of coronary myocardial bridges

Bryan Abadie, Wael Jaber

PET myocardial perfusion imaging in the diagnosis of apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Claudia Lama von Buchwald, Rupa Sanghani

Cardiac sympathetic denervation in coronary artery fistula

Katsuya Mitamura, Takashi Norikane, Kenichi Tanaka, Hanae Arai-Okuda, Yasukage Takami, Yuka Yamamoto, Keisuke Matsumoto, Yoshihiro Nishiyama

Normal myocardial perfusion despite a very high coronary calcium score

Humberto Castro-Villacorta, Jaime Francisco Ortiz-Velázquez, Oscar Ulises Preciado-Gutiérrez, Rafael Paz-Gómez, Rafael Alemán-Villalobos, Andrés Preciado-Anaya

Potential use of Rubidium-82 PET to differentiate neoplasms from inflammatory lesion: Case report

Samar Hajj, Kalpana Shah, Anton Gryaznov

Extra-cardiac multifocal lung uptake of 99mTc-sestamibi in myocardial perfusion imaging: An asymptomatic case with coronavirus infection features

Hadi Malek, Mehdi Maghsudi, Nahid Yaghoobi

68Ga-FAPI right heart uptake in a patient with idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

Lei Wang, Zongyao Zhang, Zuoquan Zhao, Chaowu Yan, Wei Fang

The importance of SPECT cardiac reconstruction for accurate 99mTc-pyrophosphate interpretation in TTR amyloidosis

Timothy J. Poterucha, Pierre Elias, Frederick L. Ruberg, Albert DeLuca, Mona Kinkhabwala, Lynne L. Johnson, Mathew S. Maurer, Andrew J. Einstein

Nuclear cardiology technologists: the MVPs of our nuclear cardiology programs

Dennis A. Calnon

ASNC Begins Search for New Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Nuclear Cardiology