Year: 2021
Type: article
Abstract: Atherosclerosis is mostly assessed by invasive angiography and/or noninvasive multislice CT, while MRI has been applied to characterize vulnerable coronary plaques, considered responsible for major cardiac events.These modalities demonstrate late-occurring atherosclerotic tissue changes, whereas PET/CT with 18F-fluorodeoxyglucose or 18F-sodium fluoride (NaF) depict early phase arterial inflammation and microcalcification, respectively, when the disease may be more responsive to therapy.The combination of the more promising tracer, NaF, total-body PET/CT imaging, and artificial intelligence-based scan interpretation appears to offer a more clinically useful assessment of arteriosclerotic disease burden for use in the diagnosis, treatment triage, and evaluation of therapy response.
Language: English
Subfield: Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4412243889