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
Anatomy and function: PET-CT (2010)
Eurointervention
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Hybrid Imaging: PET-CT and SPECT-CT (2010)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli kokoomateoksessa (A3))New clinical perspectives from imaging technologies for diagnosis and management of coronary artery disease (2010)
(Vertaisarvioitu artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa (A4))Comparison of exogenous adenosine and voluntary exercise on human skeletal muscle perfusion and perfusion heterogeneity (2010)
Journal of Applied Physiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Regulation Of Subcutaneous Adipose Tissue Blood Flow During Exercise In Humans (2010)
Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise
(Muu (O2))
Dual-gated cardiac PET - Clinical feasibility study (2010)
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Metabolic imaging in myocardial ischemia and heart failure (2010)
Quarterly Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu katsausartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A2))
Comparison of current density viability imaging at rest with FDG-PET in patients after myocardial infarction (2009)
Computerized Medical Imaging and Graphics
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
The Adrenergic-Fatty Acid Load in Heart Failure (2009)
Journal of the American College of Cardiology
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))
Non-invasive estimation of hepatic glucose uptake from [18F]FDG PET images using tissue-derived input functions (2009)
European Journal of Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging
(Vertaisarvioitu alkuperäisartikkeli tai data-artikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä (A1))