Quantitative relationship between coronary vasodilator reserve assessed by 82Rb PET imaging and coronary artery stenosis severity
Anagnostopoulos C, Almonacid A, El Fakhri G, Curillova Z, Sitek A, Roughton M, Dorbala S, Popma J, Di Carli M. Quantitative relationship between coronary vasodilator reserve assessed by 82Rb PET imaging and coronary artery stenosis severity. European Journal Of Nuclear Medicine And Molecular Imaging 2008, 35: 1593-1601. PMID: 18425513, PMCID: PMC3124702, DOI: 10.1007/s00259-008-0793-2.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPositron emission tomographyCoronary artery diseaseCoronary vasodilator reserveMyocardial blood flowPositron emission tomography imagingPercent diameter stenosisDiameter stenosisEmission tomographyAge-matchedStenosis severityHyperaemic myocardial blood flowRisk factorsStress myocardial blood flowVasodilator reserveFunctional assessment of coronary artery diseaseAssessment of coronary artery diseaseClinically useful tool