Making fair comparisons: The potency and necessity of combining myocardial perfusion imaging and CAC scanning

Daniel S. Berman

What is this image? 2023: Image 3

What is this image? 2023 image 2 results: In vivo demonstration of regadenoson-induced severe ischemia on PET myocardial perfusion imaging in a patient with hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy and nonobstructive coronary artery disease

Gary Parizher, Eunice Dugan, Wael A. Jaber

PET/CT-identified atrial hypermetabolism is an index of atrial inflammation in patients with atrial fibrillation

J. Kupusovic, M. Weber, F. Bruns, L. Kessler, E. Pesch, J. Bohnen, D. Dobrev, T. Rassaf, R. Wakili, C. Rischpler, J. Siebermair

Diagnostic yield of whole-body 18F-FDG PET/CT in patients with suspected cardiac sarcoidosis

Jamal K. Saleh, Daniel Barkmeier, Kirk A. Frey, Matthew S. Davenport

Comparison of positional artifacts in myocardial perfusion imaging in supine and semi-reclining position using dedicated D-SPECT cardiac camera: validation using CT based attenuation correction

Sejal Chopra, Shashank Shekhar Singh, Ashwani Sood, Madan Parmar, Ashwin Singh Parihar, Shelvin Kumar Vadi, Bhagwant Rai Mittal

The past, present, and future of attenuation correction for myocardial perfusion imaging

Joseph Ibrahim, Prem Soman

Left ventricular systolic dyssynchrony: a novel imaging marker for early assessment of myocardial damage in Chinese type 2 diabetes mellitus patients with normal left ventricular ejection fraction and normal myocardial perfusion

Yufeng Wang, Wenji Yu, Xiaoyu Yang, Feifei Zhang, Yonghong Sun, Yurui Hu, Le Yang, Qi Jiang, Jianfeng Wang, Xiaoliang Shao, Yuetao Wang

Detection of sympathetic denervation defects in Fabry disease by hybrid [11C]meta-hydroxyephedrine positron emission tomography and cardiac magnetic resonance

Constantin Gatterer, Tim Wollenweber, Verena Pichler, Chrysoula Vraka, Gere Sunder-Plassmann, Max Lenz, Christian Hengstenberg, Marcus Hacker, Christian Loewe, Senta Graf, Dietrich Beitzke

Impairment of sympathetic activity in Fabry disease cardiomyopathy: A further challenge for cardiac imaging

Letizia Spinelli

Automatic reorientation by deep learning to generate short-axis SPECT myocardial perfusion images

Fubao Zhu, Guojie Wang, Chen Zhao, Saurabh Malhotra, Min Zhao, Zhuo He, Jianzhou Shi, Zhixin Jiang, Weihua Zhou

Deep learning to automate SPECT MPI myocardial reorientation

Waseem Hijazi, Robert J. H. Miller

Coronary computed tomography angiography imaging features combined with computed tomography-fractional flow reserve, pericoronary fat attenuation index, and radiomics for the prediction of myocardial ischemia

Jie Hou, Guangying Zheng, Lu Han, Zhenyu Shu, Haochu Wang, Zhongyu Yuan, Jiaxuan Peng, Xiangyang Gong

Unveiling the hidden link: deciphering the interplay between plaque characteristics and nuclear myocardial perfusion imaging

Malek Nayfeh, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

CME INSTRUCTIONS: Deep-learning-based methods of attenuation correction for SPECT and PET

Deep-learning-based methods of attenuation correction for SPECT and PET

Xiongchao Chen, Chi Liu

Impact of respiratory gating and ECG gating on 18F-FDG PET/CT for cardiac sarcoidosis

Kohei Hanaoka, Shota Watanabe, Daisuke Morimoto-Ishikawa, Hayato Kaida, MD, Takahiro Yamada, Masakazu Yasuda, MD, Yoshitaka Iwanaga, MD, Gaku Nakazawa, MD, Kazunari Ishii

Motion correction for diagnosis of cardiac sarcoidosis—do we have all the answers?

Lucy Hossen, Kshama Wechalekar

Patient-tailored risk assessment of obstructive coronary artery disease using Rubidium-82 PET-based myocardial flow quantification with visual interpretation

S. S. Koenders, J. A. van Dalen, P. L. Jager, M. Mouden, C. H. Slump, J. D. van Dijk

Impact of change of ischemic burden on the outcomes of ESRD patients awaiting kidney transplantation

Jonathan Tottleben, Andrea Torres, Rami Doukky

A rare case of extensive biventricular cardiac sarcoidosis with reversible torrential tricuspid regurgitation

Joseph Okafor, Alessia Azzu, Raheel Ahmed, Barbara Cassimon, Kshama Wechalekar, Athol Wells, Vasileios Kouranos, A. John Baksi, Rakesh Sharma, Kaushik Guha, Rajdeep Khattar

Adjustment of acquisition arc in cardiac malposition during myocardial perfusion SPECT imaging: computer simulation based on deterministic modeling

Mohsen Qutbi

Attacking the Achilles heel of cardiac amyloid nuclear scintigraphy: How to reduce equivocal and false positive studies

Zainab Al Taha, Deniz Alibazoglu, Hani Sabbour, Ingy Romany, Haluk Alibazoglu, Sabahat Bokhari

Diagnostic accuracy for CZT gamma camera compared to conventional gamma camera technique with myocardial perfusion single-photon emission computed tomography: Assessment of myocardial infarction and function

Fredrik Hedeer, Shahnaz Akil, Jenny Oddstig, Cecilia Hindorf, Håkan Arheden, Marcus Carlsson, Henrik Engblom

Simultaneous assessment of left ventricular mechanical dyssynchrony using integrated 13N-ammonia PETMR system: direct comparison of PET phase analysis and MR feature tracking

Kenji Fukushima, Keiichiro Endo, Ryo Yamakuni, Takatoyo Kiko, Hirofumi Sekino, Katsuyuki Kikori, Naoyuki Ukon, Shiro Ishii, Takayoshi Yamaki, Hiroshi Ito, Yasuchika Takeishi

Lung-to-heart ratio analysis using virtual planar images obtained from myocardial perfusion SPECT data: A phantom and clinical studies

Akira Imoto, Emi Tateishi, Keizo Murakawa, Yasutoshi Ohta, Tetsuya Fukuda

Are nuclear medicine images quantified in 2D and 3D equally functional?

Kenichi Nakajima, Takayuki Shibutani

Comparison of 2D-QCA, 3D-QCA and coronary angiography derived FFR in predicting myocardial ischemia assessed by CZT-SPECT MPI

Xianglin Tang, Neng Dai, BuChun Zhang, Haidong Cai, Yanlei Huo, Mengdie Yang, Yongji Jiang, Shaofeng Duan, Jianying Shen, Mengyun Zhu, Yawei Xu, Junbo Ge

Coronary physiology in the cath lab: is “virtual FFR” ready for the prime time?

Riccardo Liga, Alessia Gimelli

A case of disappearing amyloid on technetium pyrophosphate scan

Andy Wang, Uzair Mahmood, Xiaoyu Tang, Diwakar Jain, Stephen Pan

Quantitative flow ratio derived pullback pressure gradient and CZT-SPECT measured longitudinal flow gradient for hemodynamically significant coronary artery disease

Neng Dai, Buchun Zhang, Zifan Gong, Zheng Dong, Xianglin Tang, Haojun Yu, Taoying Gu, Shaofeng Duan, Juying Qian, Hongcheng Shi, Junbo Ge

All that glisters is not gold: the elusive difference between statistics and pathophysiology

Roberto Sciagrà, Flavia Linguanti

Measuring myocardial blood flow using dynamic myocardial perfusion SPECT: artifacts and pitfalls

Florian Mallet, Alexis Poitrasson-Rivière, Denis Mariano-Goulart, Denis Agostini, Alain Manrique

Visualization of fibroblast activation using 68Ga-FAPI PET/CT after pulmonary vein isolation with pulsed field compared with cryoballoon ablation

Jana Kupusovic, Lukas Kessler, Florian Bruns, Jan-Eric Bohnen, Stephan G. Nekolla, Manuel M. Weber, Anna Lauenroth, Manuel Rattka, Ken Hermann, Dobromir Dobrev, Tienush Rassaf, Reza Wakili, Christoph Rischpler, Johannes Siebermair

Quantitation of diffuse myocardial ischemia with mental stress and its association with cardiovascular events in individuals with recent myocardial infarction

Zakaria Almuwaqqat, Ernest V. Garcia, C. David Cooke, Mariana Garcia, Amit J. Shah, Lisa Elon, Yi-An Ko, Samaah Sullivan, Jonathon Nye, Marly Van Assen, Carlo De Cecco, Paolo Raggi, J. Douglas Bremner, Arshed A. Quyyumi, Viola Vaccarino

Diagnosis of diffuse ischemia with SPECT relative perfusion imaging: How to eat soup with a fork?

Edward Hulten, Friederike K. Keating

Interaction of impaired myocardial flow reserve and extent of myocardial ischemia assessed using 13N-ammonia positron emission tomography imaging on adverse cardiovascular outcomes

Shiro Miura, Atsutaka Okizaki, Hiraku Kumamaru, Osamu Manabe, Masanao Naya, Chihoko Miyazaki, Takehiro Yamashita

Including myocardial flow reserve by PET in prediction models: Ready to fly?

Mario Petretta, Mariarosaria Panico, Ciro Gabriele Mainolfi, Alberto Cuocolo

Dynamic perfusion SPECT for functional evaluation in symptomatic patients with myocardial bridging

Rende Xu, Hao Yang, Jie Zhang, Shuguang Chen, Lifang Pang, Yizhe Wu, Zhiqiang Pei, Hongcheng Shi, Chenguang Li, Junbo Ge

Utility of myocardial blood flow assessment with dynamic CZT single photon emission computed tomography in patients with myocardial bridging: Is this ‘wishful thinking’ in this dynamic situation?

Renee P. Bullock-Palmer

[68Ga]Ga-NODAGA-E[(cRGDyK)]2 angiogenesis PET following myocardial infarction in an experimental rat model predicts cardiac functional parameters and development of heart failure

Simon Bentsen, Jacob Kildevang Jensen, Esben Christensen, Lars Ringgaard Petersen, Constance Eline Grandjean, Bjarke Follin, Johanne Straarup Madsen, Camilla Christensen, Andreas Clemmensen, Tina Binderup, Philip Hasbak, Rasmus Sejersten Ripa, Andreas Kjaer

Targeted imaging of angiogenesis post-myocardial infarction predicts development of heart failure

Albert J. Sinusas

Pharmacological and metabolic parameters of [18F]flubrobenguane in clinical imaging populations

Braeden A. Mair, Jason G. E. Zelt, Kirabo Nekesa, Zacharie Saint-Georges, Katie Dinelle, Myriam Adi, Simon Robinson, Lisa M. Mielniczuk, Jakov Shlik, Rob S. Beanlands, Robert A. deKemp, Benjamin H. Rotstein

Real world experience of therapeutic monitoring of medically treated prosthetic valve infective endocarditis by 18F-FDG-PET/CT

L. Bucy, M. L. Erpelding, C. Boursier, B. Lefevre, C. Alauzet, Y. Liu, E. Chevalier, O. Huttin, N. Agrinier, C. Selton-Suty, F. Goehringer

Early detection of cancer therapy cardiotoxicity by radionuclide angiography: An update

Cinzia Valzania, Andrea Paccagnella, Alberto Spadotto, Irene Ruotolo, Rachele Bonfiglioli, Francesco Fallani, Stefano Fanti, Nazzareno Galié

Early prediction of chemotherapy-induced cardiotoxicity

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

ASNC model coverage policy: 2023 cardiac positron emission tomography

Stephen Horgan, Rupa Sanghani, Sue Miller, Mouaz Al-Mallah, Timothy Bateman, Rob Beanlands, Dennis Calnon, Panithaya Chareonthaitawee, Marcelo Di Carli, Krishna K. Patel, Prem Soman, Randall Thompson, David Winchester, Gary Heller

Correction to: ASNC imaging guidelines/SNMMI procedure standard for positron emission tomography (PET) nuclear cardiology procedures

Vasken Dilsizian, Stephen L. Bacharach, Rob S. Beanlands, Steven R. Bergmann, Dominique Delbeke, Sharmila Dorbala, Robert J. Gropler, Juhani Knuuti, Heinrich R. Schelbert, Mark I. Travin

PET myocardial perfusion imaging of regadenoson-induced coronary vasospasm

Iqra Qamar, Simran Grewal, Akl C. Fahed, Rory Weiner, Ahmed Tawakol, Michael T. Osborne

Metastatic adrenocortical carcinoma of the interventricular septum

Yunqi Zhu, Xiaoya Lu, Lili Lin, Tingting Zhang, Donghe Chen, Kui Zhao, Xinhui Su

Multimodal imaging of perivascular epithelioid cell tumors in the pericardium

Yingwen Li, Shuqin Zhou, Yun Wan, Li Xu, Shanshan Wu, Ying Zhang, En-Tao Liu

99mTc-PYP SPECT/CT as part of the diagnostic workup of left ventricular apical aneurysm in a patient with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy

Koji Takahashi, Daisuke Sasaki, Shigeki Uemura, Takafumi Okura, Nobuhisa Yamamura, Takeshi Hijiyama, Shinobu Seike, Tomoki Sakaue, Shuntaro Ikeda

Coronary microvascular dysfunction and COVID-19: implications for long COVID patients

Maan Malahfji, Valentina Crudo, Ahmed Ibrahim Ahmed, Mujtaba Saeed, Jean Michel Saad, William A. Zoghbi, Mouaz H. Al-Mallah

Multimodality imaging of simultaneous occurrence of cardiac transthyretin amyloidosis and cardiac sarcoidosis

Elena Elchinova, Yara Banz, Stephan Zbinden, Federico Caobelli, Christoph Gräni

Significant myocardial perfusion defect during stress visible in prone but not in supine imaging

Yvonne Andersson, Gabriela Fernandez, Peter Mars, Thomas Lindow

Utility of 68Ga-DOTANOC PET/CT in therapeutic monitoring of cardiac sarcoidosis

Jasim Jaleel, Chetan Patel, Bangkim Khangembam, Sanjeev Kumar, Anushna S. Babu, Sandeep Seth

Two autopsy cases of wild-type transthyretin cardiac amyloidosis who died 10 days after technetium-99m-pyrophosphate scintigraphy

Koji Takahashi, Hiroe Morioka, Daisuke Sasaki, Nobuhisa Yamamura, Sohei Kitazawa, Mitsuharu Ueda, Tomoki Sakaue, Daijiro Enomoto, Shigeki Uemura, Takafumi Okura, Shuntaro Ikeda

First experience of LVEF assessment with cardiac amyloid SPECT scan

Mohammad Zmaili, Wael Jaber

Serial assessment of cardiac involvement in sarcoidosis by delayed 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose PET/CT

Tadao Aikawa, Osamu Manabe, Tatsuro Ibe, Noriko Oyama-Manabe

Coronary vasculopathy due to moyamoya disease

Simrat Kaur, Parth Parikh, Jaikirshan Khatri, Wael Jaber

Apical hypertrophic cardiomyopathy after heart transplantation

Yoshito Kadoya, Gary S. Small, Terrence D. Ruddy

Utility of very long fasting to detect myocardial inflammation in cardiac sarcoidosis

Atsuko Tahara, Nobuhiro Tahara, Munehisa Bekki, Shoko Maeda-Ogata, Yoichi Sugiyama, Akihiro Honda, Sachiyo Igata, Ryota Fukuoka, Toshi Abe, Yoshihiro Fukumoto

Use of SPECT imaging to confirm ATTR cardiac amyloid in a Tc99m pyrophosphate study artefactually compromised by a recent V/Q scan

Nigel Sutherland, Dinesh Sivaratnam, Michael Pearson, Nathan Better

Exercise ECG must be considered in conjunction with conventional SPECT

Lu Q. Chen, Kenneth J. Nichols, Andrew Van Tosh

Screening asymptomatic patients post PCI with myocardial perfusion imaging

Habib A. Dakik, Ziyad Ghazzal, Mohamad Haidar

Primary breast cancer diagnosed by 82-Rubidium myocardial perfusion PET-scan

Marc Østergaard Nielsen, Hanne Schledermann, Lars Thorbjørn Jensen

Retraction Note: Aminophylline and caffeine for reversal of adverse symptoms associated with regadenoson SPECT MPI

Jesse A. Doran, Waseem Sajjad, Marabel D. Schneider, Rohit Gupta, Maria L. Mackin, Ronald G. Schwartz

The heartbeat of tomorrow: welcoming the next generation of cardiologists

Mouaz H. Al-Mallah