PET/CT in cardiology

With the event of multimodality imaging, the combination of structural and functional information provided by new PET/CT technology will increase the diagnostic range in cardiovascular disease. State of the art multislice CT imaging allows not only the delineation of regional coronary calcification but also non-invasive coronary angiography. Coronary calcification has been shown to be of independent prognostic value. Together with the functional evaluation of rest and stress myocardial perfusion both parameters, calcification and angiography, can be used to risk stratify individual patients with suspected or pro…