[18 F]FDG cardiac PET imaging in a canine model of radiation-induced cardiovascular disease associated with breast cancer radiotherapy

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-1-2019

Publication Title

American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology

Abstract

Radiotherapy for the treatment of left-sided breast cancer increases the long-term risk of cardiovascular disease. The purpose of the present study was to noninvasively image the progression of radiation-induced cardiac inflammation in a large animal model using a hybrid PET and MRI system. Five canines were imaged using [

Volume

316

Issue

3

First Page

586

Last Page

595

DOI

10.1152/ajpheart.00273.2018

ISSN

1522-1539

PubMed ID

30575441

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