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Atherosclerosis Imaging

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FDG-PET/CT and PET/MR in Cardiovascular Diseases

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Atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease accounts for a large burden of morbidity and mortality. Insights over the past several decades have dramatically shifted our understanding of atherosclerosis from a bland luminal narrowing to a dynamic process driven by active inflammation and other pathobiological processes. Over the past 20 years, noninvasive molecular imaging techniques targeting atherosclerosis have evolved to provide measures of disease activity, structure, and disease burden, several of which are now employed to inform clinical decision-making. Additionally, such imaging techniques are being leveraged to derive insights into several cardiovascular disease mechanisms. This chapter focuses on noninvasive molecular imaging modalities that assess atherosclerosis.

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Radfar, A., Abohashem, S., Osborne, M.T., Tawakol, A. (2022). Atherosclerosis Imaging. In: Pelletier-Galarneau, M., Martineau, P. (eds) FDG-PET/CT and PET/MR in Cardiovascular Diseases. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09807-9_18

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