PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Loretta Isada
AU  - Thomas H. Marwick
AU  - William J. Macintyre
TI  - Physiologic evaluation of coronary flow: the role of positron emission tomography
DP  - 1993 Jan 01
TA  - Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine
PG  - 19--24
VI  - 60
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/60/1/19.short
4100  - http://www.ccjm.org/content/60/1/19.full
SO  - Cleve Clin J Med1993 Jan 01; 60
AB  - As the complexity, cost, and risks of cardiac interventions direct attention to careful selection of patients, the ability of diagnostic imaging techniques to provide quantitative documentation of the hemodynamic severity of coronary artery disease will assume greater importance. Among the various techniques currently in use, positron emission tomography yields superior spatial resolution and attenuation correction and has high sensitivity and specificity. The correlation of positron emission tomography results with coronary stenosis severity and the possibility of making quantitative flow measurements using oxygen-15 water suggest that cardiac positron emission tomography may be the best noninvasive approach for diagnostic purposes.