
Juhani
Knuuti
Director, Turku PET Centre
InFLAMES Flagship
MD, professor, Turku PET Centre
Cardiovascular diseases, imaging
Biography
Juhani Knuuti’s research has focused on the physiology and pathophysiology, diagnosis and new therapies of coronary artery disease, heart failure and metabolic diseases. The research is also focused on developing and utilizing novel noninvasive imaging methods (PET, SPECT, echocardiography, MRI and CT) that will help to determine the risk and severity of CHD and heart failure and provide guidance for therapy decisions. The recent focus in cardiac research has been on vulnerable plaques, cardiac remodelling and multimodality and hybrid imaging. In metabolic and diabetes research, the focus has been in the interactions between different organs and heart in the pathogenesis and development of the cardiac diseases.
Publications
Multimodality imaging in patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction: an expert consensus document of the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (2022)
EHJ Cardiovascular Imaging / European Heart Journal - Cardiovascular Imaging
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Myocardial perfusion quantification with Rb-82 PET: good interobserver agreement of Carimas software on global, regional, and segmental levels (2022)
Annals of Nuclear Medicine
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Corrigendum to “Standing is associated with insulin sensitivity in adults with metabolic syndrome. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport 24 (2021) 1255–1260” (Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport (2021) 24(12) (1255–1260), (S1440244021002048), (10.1016/j.jsams.2021.08.009)) (2022)
Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport
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Exploiting Glutamine Consumption in Atherosclerotic Lesions by Positron Emission Tomography Tracer (2S,4R)-4-F-18-Fluoroglutamine (2022)
Frontiers in Immunology
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CT or Invasive Coronary Angiography in Stable Chest Pain (2022)
New England Journal of Medicine
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Comparison of Pretest Probability Models of Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease (2022)
JACC: Cardiovascular Imaging
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Artificial Intelligence to Improve Risk Prediction with Nuclear Cardiac Studies (2022)
Current Cardiology Reports
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Classification of ischemia from myocardial polar maps in 15 O-H 2 O cardiac perfusion imaging using a convolutional neural network (2022)
Scientific Reports
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AAV2-VEGF-B gene therapy failed to induce angiogenesis in ischemic porcine myocardium due to inflammatory responses (2022)
Gene Therapy
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Selecting the right cohorts and endpoints for the validation of pre-test probability models for obstructive coronary artery disease (2021)
European Heart Journal
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