Myocardial blood flow reference values for 13N-ammonia PET myocardial perfusion imaging in patients without flow-limiting coronary artery disease
In patients without flow-limiting CAD, MBF is strongly influenced by the patient's habitus, whereby median and reference limits for sMBF and rMBF decrease with increasing BMI. Consequently, MFR exhibits stable lower reference limits across a wide range of BMI and may be considered the most robust quantitative parameter derived from 13N-ammonia PET-MPI.
Authors
- Simon Winther (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8872-3681)
- Christoph Ryffel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5861-5599)
- Magdalena Stuetz
- Raffael Ghenzi
- Susanne Markendorf (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9115-4667)
- Dimitrios V. Moysidis (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9083-0267)
- Aju P. Pazhenkottil (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8847-2154)
- Dominik C. Benz (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8627-726X)
- Marko Gajic
- Philipp Antonio Kaufmann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9451-5210)
- Ronny R. Buechel (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8064-8904)
- Andreas A. Giannopoulos (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0938-3170)
- Rita Pingree
Institutions
- University of Zurich (CH)
- University Hospital of Zurich (CH)
Publication Details
- Journal
- European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
- Published
- 2025-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00259-025-07196-0
- Citations
- 3
- Primary Topic
- Cardiac Imaging and Diagnostics
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 4.08
Funders
- Universität Zürich