Fig. 2
From: Interrelation between cardiac and brain small-vessel disease: a pilot quantitative PET and MRI study
PET/CT and MRI interrelation. Graphical representation of PET/CT and MRI post-processing and correlation analyses. 51 patients with normal myocardial perfusion imaging and 12 patients with cardiac small-vessel disease were used for evaluating potential interrelation between heart and brain SVD. Significant interrelations between cardiac and cerebral SVD markers were found, especially regarding deep gray-matter alterations, which supports the hypothesis of SVD as a systemic disease. GMab abnormal gray matter in deep nuclei, LV left ventricle, MBF myocardial blood flow, MFR myocardial flow reserve, MPI myocardial perfusion imaging, SVD small-vessel disease