2019 SNMMI Highlights Lecture: Cardiovascular Nuclear and Molecular Imaging

The abstracts presented here are in many ways a snapshot of the state of the art in nuclear and molecular imaging and serve to highlight its value in cardiovascular medicine. It is worth restating that MPI remains the mainstay of nuclear cardiology practice; however, emerging alternative imaging techniques can potentially narrow the role of MPI in CAD management. At the same time, molecular imaging of infiltrative cardiomyopathy, now fully integrated in clinical practice, is a major area of growth for our field. And, as we have seen at this meeting, a number of new applications of molecular imaging are in the pipeline and may expand the utilization and value of nuclear and molecular imaging in cardiology.