The development of imaging methods detecting the myocardial viability
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Abstract
The measurement of the myocardial viability is important to evaluate the prognosis and select the operation pattern of the patients undergoing the coronary bypass surgery.Various techniques have been developed to identify viable myocardium including 18F-FDG PET,18F-FDG SPECT,201Tl SPECT,99Tcm-sestamibi SPECT and fatty acid imaging in the nuclear medicine.The other clinical techniques including the dobutamine stress echocardiography and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)methods can also assess myocardial viability.
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