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Experimental and Clinical Evaluation of Perfusion
and Metabolism With Positron Emission Tomography
in Acute and Chronic Coronary Disease
By Liesbet Mesotten
December 2001
Leuven University Press
ISBN: 90-5867-190-9
128 pages, illustrated
$57.50 paper original
Contents:
Basic principles of positron emission tomography (PET) and tracers. PET applications in cardiology. Experimental protocol of micro-infarctions. Experimental protocol of chronic dysfunctional myocardium. Echocardiographic measurements. Positron emission tomography. Histopathology of myocardial tissue. Follow-up with PET in an experimental model of micro-infarctions. PET reversed mismatch pattern early after acute myocardial infarction: follow-up with flow, metabolism and function. Flow and metabolism in an experimental model of chronic dysfunctional myocardium. Correlation of flow as assessed by PET and electrocardiographic changes early after acute myocardial infarction. Summary. References. List of publications.
Ph.D. thesis.
Cardiology
Acta Biomedica Lovaniensia, No. 250