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01-12-2015 | Oral presentation
Hybrid PET/MR metabolic imaging of the reperfused infarct - new biology, future directions
Authors:
Steven K White, Heerajnarain Bulluck, Georg M Frohlich, Steven G Casson, Celia O'Meara, Ayla C Newton, Peter J Weale, Ming Young S Wan, James Moon, Ashley Groves, Leon J Menezes, Derek J Hausenloy
Published in:
Journal of Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance
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Special Issue 1/2015
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Excerpt
Multi-modality interrogation of myocardial health and disease using fused Positron Emission Tomography (PET) and magnetic resonance (MR) data has been limited by the need for separate scans, and complex and potentially imprecise co-registration of the individually-acquired PET and MR images. We sought to explore the potential of hybrid simultaneous PET/MR (hs-PET/MR) imaging to precisely localize changes in cardiac metabolism in areas of acute myocardial infarction (MI) and the area-at-risk (AAR) in acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) patients reperfused by primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PPCI). …
