Positron Emission Tomography (PET) of the Myocardium

The most important nuclear medical contributions to cardiology developed in the past ten years are without doubt the non-invasive determination of the cardiac ejection fraction by the method of ECG-gated blood-pool analysis, the noninvasive investigation of cardiac wallmotion, and myocardial scintigraphy by means of Tl201 (1–7)