Assessment of cardiac metabolic disorders with positron emission tomography

Curr Opin Cardiol. 1991 Dec;6(6):965-71. doi: 10.1097/00001573-199112000-00016.

Abstract

This review covers literature on the assessment of cardiac metabolic disorders with positron emission tomography from the period June 1990 through May 1991. We highlight myocardial perfusion, myocardial metabolism, and myocardial receptor studies.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Coronary Circulation
  • Heart / diagnostic imaging*
  • Humans
  • Myocardium / metabolism*
  • Radioactive Tracers
  • Receptors, Cell Surface / metabolism
  • Tomography, Emission-Computed / methods*

Substances

  • Radioactive Tracers
  • Receptors, Cell Surface