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FIGURE 7. Transverse CT, PET, and integrated PET/CT images of the heart from a patient with ischemic cardiomyopathy are shown. (A) CT image shows abnormal thinning of the apical and apicolateral regions of the LV and preserved wall thickness in the septal and lateral regions. (B) Corresponding 18F-FDG PET image shows preserved metabolic activity in septal and lateral regions and relatively decreased metabolic activity in apical and apicolateral regions. (C) Integrated PET/CT image (C) provides accurate coregistration of the limited-spatial-resolution metabolic signal of PET with the high-resolution anatomic signal of CT. (Adapted from (30).)
