Synopsis

Keywords: Cardiovascular: Cardiac, Cardiovascular: Hemodynamics, Cardiovascular: Myocardium

Quantitative myocardial perfusion is now ready for clinical use and is available on platforms provided for vendors. It adds to qualitative perfusion by providing additional information about regional myocardial blood flow and reserve. After excluding artefacts the perfusion maps provide valuable overall impression of perfusion status and a normal map is a reliable exclusion of significant ischemia. Quantitative perfusion also enable diagnosis of microvascular dysfunction which is not always possible with qualitative analysis. Diagnosis of triple vessel disease is also more confident since it does not depends on comparison with regions that are supposed to be of normal perfusion.