Clinical Application of Quantitative Myocardial Blood Flow Accessment Using Positron Emission Tomography

Abstract

Epicardial coronary artery disease has been highly noticed in the traditional clinical examination, while myocardial microcirculation function has been neglected for a long time, which plays a nonnegligible role in quite a few patients’ clinical manifestations and prognosis. Non-invasive quantitative PET myocardial perfusion imaging has become a unique and gold standard of evaluating myocardial microcirculation function. Its clinical applications in diagnosis, risk stratification, prognosis evaluation, efficacy evaluation and treatment guidance of cardiovascular diseases are given, together with its development status in China.