Story of rubidium-82 and advantages for myocardial perfusion PET imaging

Rubidium-82 has a long story, starting in 1954. After preclinical studies in dogs showing that myocardial uptake of this radionuclide was directly proportional to myocardial blood flow, clinical studies were performed in the 80s leading to an approval in the USA in 1989. From that time thousands of...

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Published in:Frontiers in Medicine
Main Authors: Jean-Francois eChatal, François eRouzet, Ferid eHaddad, Cécile eBourdeau, Cédric eMathieu, Dominique eLe Guludec
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-09-01
Subjects:
review
PET imaging
Myocardial perfusion
Rubidium-82
Myocardial scintigraphy
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmed.2015.00065/full

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