Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 5 , Pages 341-347 , September 2009

Hybrid SPECT/CT and PET/CT Imaging: The Next Step in Noninvasive Cardiac Imaging

  • Philipp A. Kaufmann, MD

      Affiliations

    • Cardiac Imaging Section, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • The Zurich Center for Integrative Human Physiology (ZHIP), University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress reprint requests to Philipp A. Kaufmann, MD, Professor of Cardiac Imaging, Director Nuclear Cardiology, University Hospital Zurich, NUK C 42, Ramistr. 100, CH-8091 Zurich, Switzerland
    • ,
  • Marcelo F. Di Carli, MD

      Affiliations

    • Noninvasive Cardiovascular Imaging Program, Departments of Medicine (Cardiology) and Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
    • Division of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging, Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA

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 Supported by a grant from the Swiss National Science Foundation (to P.A.K.) (SNSF-professorship grant No. PP00A-114706).

PII: S0001-2998(09)00018-X

doi: 10.1053/j.semnuclmed.2009.03.007

Seminars in Nuclear Medicine
Volume 39, Issue 5 , Pages 341-347 , September 2009

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