EANM procedural guidelines for PET/CT quantitative myocardial perfusion imaging

• DOI: 10.1007/s00259-020-05046-9
• Publication Date: 2020-11-02T01:02:36Z
• Authors: Roberto Sciagrà; Mark Lubberink; Fabien Hyafil; Antti Saraste; Riemer H. J. A. S...; Denis Agostini; Carmela Nappi; Panagiotis Georgo...; Jan Bucerius; Christoph Rischpler; Hein J. Verberne
• Keywords: ta3126; Radioisotopes; 2. Zero hunger; Medizin; Myocardial Perfusion Imaging; Reproducibility of Results; Quantitative imaging; Guidelines; Myocardial flow reserve; Myocardial blood flow; Cardiovascular System; 3. Good health; 03 medical and health sciences; PET; 0302 clinical medicine; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; Positron-Emission Tomography; Myocardial blood flow; Myocardial flow reserve; PET; Quantitative imaging; Humans; Positron Emission Tomography Computed Tomography; Positron-Emission Tomography; Radioisotopes; Reproducibility of Results; Cardiovascular System; Myocardial Perfusion Imaging; Humans; Myocardial blood flow; Myocardial flow reserve; PET; Quantitative imaging; Radiologi och bildbehandling; Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Medical Imaging

AbstractThe use of cardiac PET, and in particular of quantitative myocardial perfusion PET, has been growing during the last years, because scanners are becoming widely available and because several studies have convincingly demonstrated the advantages of this imaging approach. Therefore, there is a need of determining the procedural modalities for performing high-quality studies and obtaining from this demanding technique the most in terms of both measurement reliability and clinical data. Although the field is rapidly evolving, with progresses in hardware and software, and the near perspective of new tracers, the EANM Cardiovascular Committee found it reasonable and useful to expose in an updated text the state of the art of quantitative myocardial perfusion PET, in order to establish an effective use of this modality and to help implementing it on a wider basis. Together with the many steps necessary for the correct execution of quantitative measurements, the importance of a multiparametric approach and of a comprehensive and clinically useful report have been stressed.