Annals of Nuclear Cardiology
Online ISSN : 2424-1741
Print ISSN : 2189-3926
ISSN-L : 2189-3926
MBF Quantification
Flow-Based Functional Assessment of Coronary Artery Disease by Myocardial Perfusion Positron Emission Tomography in the Era of Fractional Flow Reserve
Sang-Geon ChoHyeon Sik KimHenry Hee-Seung Bom
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2016 Volume 2 Issue 1 Pages 99-105

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Abstract

Myocardial perfusion positron emission tomography (PET) has long been regarded as a gold standard of myocardial blood flow (MBF) measurement. However, since randomized clinical trials showed the prognostic value of fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided revascularization, FFR has rapidly become a new gold standard of functionally significant coronary artery disease (CAD). Despite the predominance of FFR in the management of stable CAD, FFR also has limitations. Overcoming hurdles by the lesion-specific MBF measurement by hybrid imaging and novel flow parameter can be a complimentary tool.

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