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Heart. 2000 April; 83(4): 475–480.
PMCID: PMC1729375
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Positron emission tomography and myocardial imaging
P. Camici
MRC Cyclotron Unit, Imperial College School of Medicine, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK. paolo.camici/at/csc.mrc.ac.uk
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Physics of positron emission, annihilation, and coincidence detection. Adapted from Camici et al.2
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Myocardial blood flow under baseline conditions and during hyperaemia induced by intravenous dipyridamole in normal subjects (A), in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (B), and patients with left ventricular hypertrophy secondary to arterial hypertension (more ...)
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Coronary vasodilator reserve falls with increasing percent diameter stenosis and is exhausted for stenoses > 80%. Normal control values of coronary vasodilator reserve are shown at zero percent diameter stenosis on the left. CAD, (more ...)
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Myocardial viability in two patients with coronary artery disease and severe chronic left ventricular dysfunction assessed by PET with 18F labelled FDG during hyperinsulinaemic euglycaemic clamp. Both patients had previous myocardial infarctions. The (more ...)
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Mean left ventricular β adrenoceptor density in normal subjects and in patients with hypertrophic cardiomyopathy with preserved systolic function (HC) or with left ventricular dysfunction (HC-LVD). Adapted from Choudhury et al.16
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